chlorpromazine
/klɔɹˈpɹɑm.əˌziːn/noun
chlorpromazine is spelled C-H-L-O-R-P-R-O-M-A-Z-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is chloropromazine: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 87 of all searches for the word. Chlorpromazine is a noun meaning “A synthetic antipsychotic drug, with the chemical formula C₁₇H₁₉ClN₂S”. The plural of chlorpromazine is chlorpromazines.
How do you spell chlorpromazine?
Chlorpromazine is spelled C-H-L-O-R-P-R-O-M-A-Z-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 87 of the searches for chlorpromazine 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 chlorpromazine mean?
noun
- 1
A synthetic antipsychotic drug, with the chemical formula C₁₇H₁₉ClN₂S.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chlorpromazine?
- UK /klɔːˈpɹəʊ.məz.ɪn/
- UK /klɔːˈpɹəʊ.məz.iːn/
- US /klɔɹˈpɹɑm.əˌziːn/
Chlorpromazine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chlorpromazine
- chlorpromazines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chlorpromazine?
Chlorpromazine appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Chlorpromazine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense synthetic drug:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chlorpromazine |
| German | Chlorpromazin |
| Portuguese | cloropromazina, clorpromazina |
| Spanish | clorpromazina |
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 chlorpromazine come from?
Borrowed from French chloropromazine. By surface analysis, chlor- + promazine. First attested in the 1950s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).