benzodiazepine
/ˌbɛnzoʊdaɪˈæzɪpiːn/
"benzodiazepine" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“benzodiazepine” is uncommon English (frequency #57,240 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,240
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a class of psychoactive drugs, structured upon diazepine, used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and other related disorders.
Corpus desk
Index EN-benzodiazepine · benzodiazepine · English
benzodiazepine · rank #57,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,240
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH belter
Nearest frequency peer: belter (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “benzodiazepine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bechtel
Bechtel
42,766 corpus weight
- Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
42,765 corpus weight
- belay
belay
42,764 corpus weight
- belter
belter
42,762 corpus weight
- benzodiazep…
benzodiazepine
42,761 corpus weight
- birthdate
birthdate
42,757 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “benzodiazepine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | benzodiazepine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌbɛnzoʊdaɪˈæzɪpiːn/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #57,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “benzodiazepine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
benzodiazepine is uncommon English at frequency #57,240 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌbɛnzoʊdaɪˈæzɪpiːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of a class of psychoactive drugs, structured upon diazepine, used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and other related disorders.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for benzodiazepine, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From benzo- + diazepine. The correct English form is benzodiazepine, spelled B-E-N-Z-O-D-I-A-Z-E-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Any of a class of psychoactive drugs, structured upon diazepine, used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and other related disorders.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how benzodiazepine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That week we were in the desert I couldn't sleep—perhaps a couple of hours each night at the most even with a steady intake of benzodiazepine.
His modus operandi was to drug them with wine or tea laced with benzodiazepines, which incapacitated them and wiped out their memories.
Etymology
From benzo- + diazepine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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