azathioprine
/ˌæz.əˈθaɪ.əˌpɹin/noun
azathioprine is spelled A-Z-A-T-H-I-O-P-R-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is azothioprine: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Azathioprine is a noun meaning “A purine antimetabolite immunosuppressant used in organ transplant and autoimmune diseases to prevent…”. The plural of azathioprine is azathioprines.
How many letters and syllables are in azathioprine?
| Letters | 12: A-Z-A-T-H-I-O-P-R-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, azothioprine, about 90 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 azathioprine?
Azathioprine is spelled A-Z-A-T-H-I-O-P-R-I-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 52 of the searches for azathioprine 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 azathioprine?
Azathioprine appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 azathioprine?
- UK /ˌeɪ.zəˈθʌɪ.ə(ʊ).pɹiːn/
- US /ˌæz.əˈθaɪ.əˌpɹin/
Azathioprine 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 azathioprine
- azathioprines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does azathioprine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A purine antimetabolite immunosuppressant used in organ transplant and autoimmune diseases to prevent rejection.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).