ceftazidime
/sɛfˈtæz.ɪ.diːm/noun
ceftazidime is spelled C-E-F-T-A-Z-I-D-I-M-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cefazidime: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 667 of all searches for the word. Ceftazidime is a noun meaning “A third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic, usually reserved for the treatment of infections caused by…”.
How many letters and syllables are in ceftazidime?
| Letters | 11: C-E-F-T-A-Z-I-D-I-M-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cefazidime, 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 ceftazidime?
Ceftazidime is spelled C-E-F-T-A-Z-I-D-I-M-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 657 of the searches for ceftazidime 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 ceftazidime?
Ceftazidime appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 ceftazidime?
- /sɛfˈtæz.ɪ.diːm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ceftazidime mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic, usually reserved for the treatment of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ceftazidime come from?
From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + th(i)az(olyl) + (pyr)id(inium) + (ox)ime.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).