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cyclizine

/ˈsaɪ.klɪˌzin/noun

cyclizine is a noun meaning “An antiemetic drug used especially in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₈H₂₂N₂·HCl in the treatment of motion sickness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-I-Z-I-N-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyclizine is cyclizines.

What does cyclizine mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An antiemetic drug used especially in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₈H₂₂N₂·HCl in the treatment of motion sickness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce cyclizine?

  • US /ˈsaɪ.klɪˌzin/

Cyclizine has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of cyclizine

  • cyclizines plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cyclizine?

Cyclizine appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).

Where does cyclizine come from?

From cycl- + -izine (“diphenylmethylpiperazine derivative”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).