artemisinin
/ˌɑɹ.təˈmɪs.n̩.ɪn/noun
artemisinin is spelled A-R-T-E-M-I-S-I-N-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is artemesinin: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Artemisinin is a noun meaning “An antimalarial drug derived from the sweet wormwood shrub, Artemisia annua, found as the active ingredient…”. The plural of artemisinin is artemisinins.
How many letters and syllables are in artemisinin?
| Letters | 11: A-R-T-E-M-I-S-I-N-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, artemesinin, about 20 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 artemisinin?
Artemisinin is spelled A-R-T-E-M-I-S-I-N-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 40 of the searches for artemisinin 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 artemisinin?
Artemisinin appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 artemisinin?
- UK /ˌɑː.tɪˈmiː.sɪn.ɪn/
- US /ˌɑɹ.təˈmɪs.n̩.ɪn/
Artemisinin 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 artemisinin
- artemisinins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does artemisinin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An antimalarial drug derived from the sweet wormwood shrub, Artemisia annua, found as the active ingredient in traditional Chinese medical herbal treatment for malaria, chemically a sesquiterpene lactone - C₁₅H₂₂O₅.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Artemisinin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense antimalarial from Artemisia annua:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | artemisinina |
| Spanish | artemisina |
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 artemisinin come from?
Blend of artemisia + quinin(e).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).