cefotaxime
/sɛf.əˈtæk.siːm/noun
cefotaxime is spelled C-E-F-O-T-A-X-I-M-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cefataxime: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Cefotaxime is a noun meaning “A broad-spectrum antibiotic with efficacy against most bacteria”. The plural of cefotaxime is cefotaximes.
How many letters and syllables are in cefotaxime?
| Letters | 10: C-E-F-O-T-A-X-I-M-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 33 million words; the 176,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cefataxime, 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 cefotaxime?
Cefotaxime is spelled C-E-F-O-T-A-X-I-M-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for cefotaxime 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 cefotaxime?
Cefotaxime appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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 cefotaxime?
- /sɛf.əˈtæk.siːm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cefotaxime
- cefotaximes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cefotaxime mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A broad-spectrum antibiotic with efficacy against most bacteria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cefotaxime in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | cefotaxima, cefatoxime |
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 cefotaxime come from?
From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + -o-[Term?] + (o)xime.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).