cimetidine
/saɪˈmɛt.ɪ.diːn/noun
cimetidine is spelled C-I-M-E-T-I-D-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cimitedine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 182 of all searches for the word. Cimetidine is a noun meaning “A histamine H₂-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach, mainly used to treat…”. The plural of cimetidine is cimetidines.
How many letters and syllables are in cimetidine?
| Letters | 10: C-I-M-E-T-I-D-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cimitedine, about 20 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 cimetidine?
Cimetidine is spelled C-I-M-E-T-I-D-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 181 of the searches for cimetidine 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 cimetidine?
Cimetidine appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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 cimetidine?
- /saɪˈmɛt.ɪ.diːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cimetidine
- cimetidines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cimetidine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A histamine H₂-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach, mainly used to treat heartburn and peptic ulcers, but notorious for causing male impotence. It is a histamine analog, a sulfur-containing derivative of imidazole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cimetidine come from?
From cy(ano)- + meth- + (guan)idine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).