bicalutamide
/ˌbaɪ.kəˈlu.təˌmaɪd/noun
bicalutamide is spelled B-I-C-A-L-U-T-A-M-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is bicultamide: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 333 of all searches for the word. Bicalutamide is a noun meaning “An oral nonsteroidal antiandrogen used in the treatment of prostate cancer and hirsutism”.
How many letters and syllables are in bicalutamide?
| Letters | 12: B-I-C-A-L-U-T-A-M-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bicultamide, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell bicalutamide?
Bicalutamide is spelled B-I-C-A-L-U-T-A-M-I-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 332 of the searches for bicalutamide 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 bicalutamide?
Bicalutamide appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 bicalutamide?
- US /ˌbaɪ.kəˈlu.təˌmaɪd/
Bicalutamide has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with bicalutamide?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bicalutamide from its last stressed vowel (/utəmaɪd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does bicalutamide mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An oral nonsteroidal antiandrogen used in the treatment of prostate cancer and hirsutism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate bicalutamide?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of bicalutamide: bica.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bicalutamide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bicalutamide |
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 bicalutamide come from?
From bica- (“bicyclic compound”) + -lutamide (“nonsteroid antiandrogen”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).