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 many letters and syllables are in bupivacaine?
| Letters | 11: B-U-P-I-V-A-C-A-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bupivicaine, about 310 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 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.
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).
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).
What rhymes with bupivacaine?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bupivacaine from its last stressed vowel (/ɪvəkeɪn/):
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 bupivacaine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
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).
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).