cycloheximide
noun
cycloheximide is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-H-E-X-I-M-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cyclohexamide: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Cycloheximide is a noun meaning “An agricultural fungicide produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus, widely used in biomedical research”. The plural of cycloheximide is cycloheximides.
How do you spell cycloheximide?
Cycloheximide is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-H-E-X-I-M-I-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for cycloheximide 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 cycloheximide mean?
noun
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An agricultural fungicide produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus, widely used in biomedical research.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cycloheximide
- cycloheximides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cycloheximide?
Cycloheximide appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 cycloheximide come from?
Formed with cyclo-.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).