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alirocumab

/ˌæl.ɪˈɹɑk.jəˌmæb/noun

alirocumab is spelled A-L-I-R-O-C-U-M-A-B: 10 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alirocumab means “A human monoclonal antibody used to treat high cholesterol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in alirocumab?

Letters10: A-L-I-R-O-C-U-M-A-B
Syllables5 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is alirocumab?

Alirocumab appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 alirocumab?

  • US /ˌæl.ɪˈɹɑk.jəˌmæb/

Alirocumab has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with alirocumab?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as alirocumab from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkjəmæb/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does alirocumab mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A human monoclonal antibody used to treat high cholesterol.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does alirocumab come from?

From [Term?] + -c- (“cardiovascular”) + -umab (“human monoclonal antibody”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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