atorvastatin
/əˈtɔːɹvəˌstætɪn/noun
atorvastatin is spelled A-T-O-R-V-A-S-T-A-T-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is atorvastin: about 1,140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Atorvastatin is a noun meaning “A statin used to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. Trade names include Lipitor among others”. The plural of atorvastatin is atorvastatins.
How do you spell atorvastatin?
Atorvastatin is spelled A-T-O-R-V-A-S-T-A-T-I-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for atorvastatin 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 atorvastatin mean?
noun
- 1
A statin used to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. Trade names include Lipitor among others.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce atorvastatin?
- UK /əˌtɔːvəˈstætɪn/
- US /əˈtɔːɹvəˌstætɪn/
- US /əˌtɔːɹvəˈstætɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-atorvastatin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of atorvastatin
- atorvastatins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is atorvastatin?
Atorvastatin appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).
Where does atorvastatin come from?
From ator- + -vastatin (“HMG CoA reductase inhibitor”). The prefix probably from Spanish atorar (“to clog”), wherein the verb suffix -ar was taken off. Thus, the role is "to inhibit the clogging (of cholesterol)".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).