bupivacaine
/bjuˈpɪv.əˌkeɪn/noun
bupivacaine is spelled B-U-P-I-V-A-C-A-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is bupivicaine: about 310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Bupivacaine is a noun meaning “A local anesthetic C₁₈H₂₈N₂O that is like lidocaine in its action but is longer acting”.
How do you spell bupivacaine?
Bupivacaine is spelled B-U-P-I-V-A-C-A-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for bupivacaine 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 bupivacaine mean?
noun
- 1
A local anesthetic C₁₈H₂₈N₂O that is like lidocaine in its action but is longer acting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bupivacaine?
- US /bjuˈpɪv.əˌkeɪn/
Bupivacaine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bupivacaine?
Bupivacaine appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 bupivacaine come from?
From bu(tyl) + pi(pecoloxylidide) + -vacaine (“alteration of Novocaine”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).