capecitabine
/kæp.əˈsaɪ.tə.biːn/noun
capecitabine is spelled C-A-P-E-C-I-T-A-B-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cabecitabine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 303 of all searches for the word. Capecitabine is a noun meaning “An antineoplastic drug C₁₅H₂₂FN₃O₆ (trademark Xeloda) that is converted in the body to fluorouracil and is…”.
How many letters and syllables are in capecitabine?
| Letters | 12: C-A-P-E-C-I-T-A-B-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 38 million words; the 189,524th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cabecitabine, about 10 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 capecitabine?
Capecitabine is spelled C-A-P-E-C-I-T-A-B-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 302 of the searches for capecitabine 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 capecitabine?
Capecitabine appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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 capecitabine?
- /kæp.əˈsaɪ.tə.biːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does capecitabine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An antineoplastic drug C₁₅H₂₂FN₃O₆ (trademark Xeloda) that is converted in the body to fluorouracil and is administered orally to treat colorectal cancers and often in conjunction with docetaxel to treat metastatic breast cancer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does capecitabine come from?
From ca(rboxylate) + pe(ntyl) + -citabine (“cytarabine or azacytidine derivative”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).