deferoxamine
/dɛfəˈɹɒksəmiːn/noun
deferoxamine is spelled D-E-F-E-R-O-X-A-M-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is deferoxime: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Deferoxamine is a noun meaning “A siderophore, produced by the actinobacterium Streptomyces pilosus, that is used as a chelating agent used…”. The plural of deferoxamine is deferoxamines.
How many letters and syllables are in deferoxamine?
| Letters | 12: D-E-F-E-R-O-X-A-M-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 5; the most searched, deferoxime, about 10 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 deferoxamine?
Deferoxamine is spelled D-E-F-E-R-O-X-A-M-I-N-E. 5 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for deferoxamine 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 deferoxamine?
Deferoxamine appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 deferoxamine?
- UK /dɛfəˈɹɒksəmiːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of deferoxamine
- deferoxamines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does deferoxamine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A siderophore, produced by the actinobacterium Streptomyces pilosus, that is used as a chelating agent used to remove excess iron from the body
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).