ceftriaxone
cef·tri·a·zone/ˌsɛftɹaɪˈæksoʊn/noun
ceftriaxone is spelled C-E-F-T-R-I-A-X-O-N-E, 4 syllables: cef·tri·a·zone. The wrong spelling people search most is cetriaxone: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 185 of all searches for the word. Ceftriaxone is a noun meaning “A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic”.
How many letters and syllables are in ceftriaxone?
| Letters | 11: C-E-F-T-R-I-A-X-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: cef·tri·a·zone |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, cetriaxone, about 50 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 ceftriaxone?
Ceftriaxone is spelled C-E-F-T-R-I-A-X-O-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 154 of the searches for ceftriaxone 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 ceftriaxone?
Ceftriaxone appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 ceftriaxone?
- /ˌsɛftɹaɪˈæksoʊn/
Ceftriaxone has 4 syllables, split cef·tri·a·zone in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ceftriaxone
- ceftriazone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ceftriaxone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ceftriaxone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ceftriaxone |
| Spanish | ceftriaxona |
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 ceftriaxone come from?
From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + tria(zine)[Term?] + -one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).