antiandrogen
/ˌæ.tiˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒɪn/noun
antiandrogen is a noun meaning “Any substance that inhibits the release or the biological effects of an androgen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-A-N-D-R-O-G-E-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antiandrogen is antiandrogens.
What does antiandrogen mean?
noun
- 1
Any substance that inhibits the release or the biological effects of an androgen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antiandrogen?
- US /ˌæ.tiˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒɪn/
- US /ˌæn.tiˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒɪn/
- US [ˌæ.ni-]
Antiandrogen has 5 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-antiandrogen.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antiandrogen
- antiandrogens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiandrogen?
Antiandrogen appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Antiandrogen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any substance that inhibits the release or biological effects of an androgen:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anti-androgène |
| Portuguese | antiandrógeno |
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.