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cefazolin

noun

cefazolin is spelled C-E-F-A-Z-O-L-I-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cefazolin means “A particular cephalosporin antibiotic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cefazolin?

Letters9: C-E-F-A-Z-O-L-I-N
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is cefazolin?

Cefazolin appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

Forms of cefazolin

  • cefazoline
  • cephazolin

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cefazolin mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A particular cephalosporin antibiotic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cefazolin come from?

From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + azole + -in.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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