carnitine
/ˈkɑɹ.nəˌtiːn/noun
carnitine is spelled C-A-R-N-I-T-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cartinine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 116 of all searches for the word. Carnitine is a noun meaning “A betaine, 3-hydroxy-4-trimethylammonio-butanoate, that is found in the liver and has a function in fatty…”. The plural of carnitine is carnitines.
How many letters and syllables are in carnitine?
| Letters | 9: C-A-R-N-I-T-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cartinine, 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 carnitine?
Carnitine is spelled C-A-R-N-I-T-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 117 of the searches for carnitine 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 carnitine?
Carnitine appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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 carnitine?
- UK /ˈkɑː.nɪt.iːn/
- US /ˈkɑɹ.nəˌtiːn/
Carnitine has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-carnitine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of carnitine
- carnitines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does carnitine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A betaine, 3-hydroxy-4-trimethylammonio-butanoate, that is found in the liver and has a function in fatty acid transport.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate carnitine?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of carnitine: CAR.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does carnitine come from?
From German Carnitin, coined from Latin carn- + Latin -i- + -t- (“arbitrary insertion”) + -in, for it was first described in meat extracts in 1905. By surface analysis, Latin carnit- + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).