chlorhexidine
noun
chlorhexidine is spelled C-H-L-O-R-H-E-X-I-D-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is chlorhexidene: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 435 of all searches for the word. Chlorhexidine is a noun meaning “A particular chemical antiseptic and bacteriostatic”.
How do you spell chlorhexidine?
Chlorhexidine is spelled C-H-L-O-R-H-E-X-I-D-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 430 of the searches for chlorhexidine 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.
What does chlorhexidine mean?
noun
- 1
A particular chemical antiseptic and bacteriostatic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chlorhexidine?
Chlorhexidine appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).
Chlorhexidine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chlorhexidine |
| German | Chlorhexidin |
| Spanish | clorhexidina |
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 chlorhexidine come from?
From chlor- + hex- + -idine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).