catecholamine
/katəˈkəʊləmiːn/noun
catecholamine is spelled C-A-T-E-C-H-O-L-A-M-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cathecholamine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 39 of all searches for the word. Catecholamine is a noun meaning “Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland”. The plural of catecholamine is catecholamines.
How many letters and syllables are in catecholamine?
| Letters | 13: C-A-T-E-C-H-O-L-A-M-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cathecholamine, 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 catecholamine?
Catecholamine is spelled C-A-T-E-C-H-O-L-A-M-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 39 of the searches for catecholamine 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 catecholamine?
Catecholamine appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 catecholamine?
- UK /katəˈkəʊləmiːn/
- UK /katəˈkɒləmiːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of catecholamine
- catecholamines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does catecholamine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Catecholamine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of a class of aromatic amines:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | catécholamine |
| German | Katecholamine, Catecholamine |
| Portuguese | catecolamina |
| Spanish | catecolamina |
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 catecholamine come from?
From catechol + -amine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).