amphotericin
/ˌæm.fəˈtɛɹ.ɪs.ɪn/noun
amphotericin is spelled A-M-P-H-O-T-E-R-I-C-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is amphotericine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 46 of all searches for the word. Amphotericin is a noun meaning “Any of a group of amphoteric antibiotic and antifungal agents derived from Streptomyces bacteria”. The plural of amphotericin is amphotericins.
How many letters and syllables are in amphotericin?
| Letters | 12: A-M-P-H-O-T-E-R-I-C-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, amphotericine, about 10 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 amphotericin?
Amphotericin is spelled A-M-P-H-O-T-E-R-I-C-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for amphotericin 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 amphotericin?
Amphotericin appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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 amphotericin?
- US /ˌæm.fəˈtɛɹ.ɪs.ɪn/
Amphotericin has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of amphotericin
- amphotericins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amphotericin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a group of amphoteric antibiotic and antifungal agents derived from Streptomyces bacteria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amphotericin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anfotericina |
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 amphotericin come from?
From amphoteric + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).