dihydrotestosterone
noun
dihydrotestosterone is spelled D-I-H-Y-D-R-O-T-E-S-T-O-S-T-E-R-O-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is dihydrotesterone: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Dihydrotestosterone is a noun meaning “An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers”. The plural of dihydrotestosterone is dihydrotestosterones.
How many letters and syllables are in dihydrotestosterone?
| Letters | 19: D-I-H-Y-D-R-O-T-E-S-T-O-S-T-E-R-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 15 million words; the 118,441st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dihydrotesterone, 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 dihydrotestosterone?
Dihydrotestosterone is spelled D-I-H-Y-D-R-O-T-E-S-T-O-S-T-E-R-O-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for dihydrotestosterone 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 dihydrotestosterone?
Dihydrotestosterone appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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 dihydrotestosterone?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-dihydrotestosterone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dihydrotestosterone
- dihydrotestosterones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dihydrotestosterone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate dihydrotestosterone?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of dihydrotestosterone: DHT.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dihydrotestosterone come from?
By surface analysis, di- + hydro- + testosterone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).