calcitriol
/ˌkæl.sɪˈtɹaɪˌɔl/noun
calcitriol is spelled C-A-L-C-I-T-R-I-O-L. The wrong spelling people search most is caclitriol: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 833 of all searches for the word. Calcitriol is a noun meaning “A physiologically active metabolic derivative C₂₇H₄₄O₃ of cholecalciferol (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol)…”. The plural of calcitriol is calcitriols.
How many letters and syllables are in calcitriol?
| Letters | 10: C-A-L-C-I-T-R-I-O-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, caclitriol, 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 calcitriol?
Calcitriol is spelled C-A-L-C-I-T-R-I-O-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 810 of the searches for calcitriol 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 calcitriol?
Calcitriol appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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 calcitriol?
- US /ˌkæl.sɪˈtɹaɪˌɔl/
Calcitriol 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 calcitriol?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as calcitriol from its last stressed vowel (/aɪɔl/):
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).
Forms of calcitriol
- calcitriols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does calcitriol mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A physiologically active metabolic derivative C₂₇H₄₄O₃ of cholecalciferol (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol) that is synthesized in the liver and kidney and stimulates the intestinal absorption of calcium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Calcitriol in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Calcitriol |
| Portuguese | calcitriol |
| Spanish | calcitriol |
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 calcitriol come from?
From calci- (“vitamin D derivative”) + triol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).