bisphosphonate
noun
bisphosphonate is spelled B-I-S-P-H-O-S-P-H-O-N-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is biophosphonate: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 51 of all searches for the word. Bisphosphonate is a noun meaning “Any of a class of organic compounds having two phosphate groups attached to a single carbon atom”. The plural of bisphosphonate is bisphosphonates.
How many letters and syllables are in bisphosphonate?
| Letters | 14: B-I-S-P-H-O-S-P-H-O-N-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 161,690th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, biophosphonate, 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 bisphosphonate?
Bisphosphonate is spelled B-I-S-P-H-O-S-P-H-O-N-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 51 of the searches for bisphosphonate 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 bisphosphonate?
Bisphosphonate appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Forms of bisphosphonate
- bisphosphonates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bisphosphonate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a class of organic compounds having two phosphate groups attached to a single carbon atom.
- 2
Any of several pharmaceuticals having this structure; they are inhibitors of bone resorption, used to treat several diseases including Paget's disease and osteoporosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does bisphosphonate come from?
From bis- + phosphonate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).