acetazolamide
/əˌsiː.təˈzɒl.əm.ʌɪd/noun
acetazolamide is spelled A-C-E-T-A-Z-O-L-A-M-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is acetazolomide: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 116 of all searches for the word. Acetazolamide is a noun meaning “A drug that inhibits the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, used in the treatment of glaucoma and epilepsy and as a…”. The plural of acetazolamide is acetazolamides.
How many letters and syllables are in acetazolamide?
| Letters | 13: A-C-E-T-A-Z-O-L-A-M-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 5; the most searched, acetazolomide, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 acetazolamide?
Acetazolamide is spelled A-C-E-T-A-Z-O-L-A-M-I-D-E. 5 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for acetazolamide 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 acetazolamide?
Acetazolamide appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 acetazolamide?
- UK /əˌsiː.təˈzɒl.əm.ʌɪd/
- UK /əˌsɛt.əˈzɒl.əm.ʌɪd/
- UK /əˌsiː.təˈzəʊ.ləm.ʌɪd/
Acetazolamide has 6 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-acetazolamide.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of acetazolamide
- acetazolamides plural
- acetazoleamide
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acetazolamide mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A drug that inhibits the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, used in the treatment of glaucoma and epilepsy and as a diuretic (now especially in the prevention of acute mountain sickness).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acetazolamide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense carbonic anhydrase inhibitor that is used to treat glaucoma and other conditions:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | acetazolamida |
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 acetazolamide come from?
Blend of acetamide + azole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).