clarithromycin
/kləˌɹɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sn̩/noun
clarithromycin is spelled C-L-A-R-I-T-H-R-O-M-Y-C-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is clarythromycin: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 108 of all searches for the word. Clarithromycin is a noun meaning “A semisynthetic macrolide antibiotic C₃₈H₆₉NO₁₃ (trademarks Biaxin, Klaricid) used especially in the…”.
How many letters and syllables are in clarithromycin?
| Letters | 14: C-L-A-R-I-T-H-R-O-M-Y-C-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, clarythromycin, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell clarithromycin?
Clarithromycin is spelled C-L-A-R-I-T-H-R-O-M-Y-C-I-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 72 of the searches for clarithromycin 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 clarithromycin?
Clarithromycin appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 clarithromycin?
- UK /kləˌɹɪθ.ɹəʊˈmʌɪ.sɪn/
- US /kləˌɹɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sn̩/
Clarithromycin has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-clarithromycin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with clarithromycin?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as clarithromycin from its last stressed vowel (/aɪsn/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does clarithromycin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A semisynthetic macrolide antibiotic C₃₈H₆₉NO₁₃ (trademarks Biaxin, Klaricid) used especially in the treatment of various mild to moderate bacterial infections.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Clarithromycin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | claritromicina |
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 clarithromycin come from?
From Latin clārus (“clear”) + English (e)rythromycin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).