aflatoxin
noun
aflatoxin is spelled A-F-L-A-T-O-X-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is alfatoxin: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Aflatoxin is a noun meaning “Any of a family of mycotoxins, produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic…”. The plural of aflatoxin is aflatoxins.
How many letters and syllables are in aflatoxin?
| Letters | 9: A-F-L-A-T-O-X-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 97,057th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, alfatoxin, about 20 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 aflatoxin?
Aflatoxin is spelled A-F-L-A-T-O-X-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for aflatoxin 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 aflatoxin?
Aflatoxin appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th 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 aflatoxin?
Aflatoxin has 4 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).
Forms of aflatoxin
- aflatoxins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aflatoxin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a family of mycotoxins, produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic; typically found as contaminants of animal food or peanuts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aflatoxin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense poison:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | aflatoxina |
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 aflatoxin come from?
From A(spergillus) fla(vus) + toxin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).