anti-inflammatory
noun, adjective
anti-inflammatory is spelled A-N-T-I-I-N-F-L-A-M-M-A-T-O-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is antinflammatory: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 99 of all searches for the word. Anti-inflammatory is a noun meaning “An agent that prevents or counteracts inflammation”. The plural of anti-inflammatory is anti-inflammatories.
How do you spell anti-inflammatory?
Anti-inflammatory is spelled A-N-T-I-I-N-F-L-A-M-M-A-T-O-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 99 of the searches for anti-inflammatory 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.
What does anti-inflammatory mean?
noun
- 1
An agent that prevents or counteracts inflammation.
adjective
- 1
Preventing or counteracting inflammation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anti-inflammatory?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-anti-inflammatory.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anti-inflammatory
- anti-inflammatories plural
- antiinflammatory
- more anti-inflammatory comparative
- most anti-inflammatory superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anti-inflammatory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anti-inflammatoire |
| German | Antiphlogistikum , antiinflammatorisch |
| Portuguese | anti-inflamatório |
| Spanish | antiinflamatorio |
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 anti-inflammatory come from?
From anti- + inflammatory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).