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aripiprazole

/ˌæɹ.ɪˈpɪp.ɹəˌzoʊl/noun

aripiprazole is a noun meaning “An antipsychotic drug C₂₃H₂₇Cl₂N₃O₂ used in the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and irritability associated…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-I-P-I-P-R-A-Z-O-L-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does aripiprazole mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An antipsychotic drug C₂₃H₂₇Cl₂N₃O₂ used in the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and irritability associated with autism.

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

How do you pronounce aripiprazole?

  • US /ˌæɹ.ɪˈpɪp.ɹəˌzoʊl/

Aripiprazole has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

How common is aripiprazole?

Aripiprazole appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).

Aripiprazole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense antipsychotic drug:

LanguageWords
Portuguesearipiprazol

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 aripiprazole come from?

From ari- (of unknown origin) + -piprazole (“phenylpiperazine derivative”).

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