abortifacient
/əˌbɔɹ.təˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/adjective, noun
abortifacient is spelled A-B-O-R-T-I-F-A-C-I-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is abortificient: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Abortifacient is an adjective meaning “Producing miscarriage”.
How many letters and syllables are in abortifacient?
| Letters | 13: A-B-O-R-T-I-F-A-C-I-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 23 million words; the 145,125th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, abortificient, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell abortifacient?
Abortifacient is spelled A-B-O-R-T-I-F-A-C-I-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for abortifacient in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is abortifacient?
Abortifacient appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce abortifacient?
- US /əˌbɔɹ.təˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/
- US /əˌbɔɹ.tɪˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/
Abortifacient has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-abortifacient.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of abortifacient
- more abortifacient comparative
- most abortifacient superlative
- abortifacients plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does abortifacient mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Producing miscarriage.
noun
- 1
A drug or an agent that induces an abortion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Abortifacient in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does abortifacient come from?
First attested in 1875. abort + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).