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donepezil

/ˌdɑnˈɛp.əz.ɪl/noun

donepezil is spelled D-O-N-E-P-E-Z-I-L. The wrong spelling people search most is donezepil: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Donepezil is a noun meaning “A drug taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₄H₂₉NO₃·HCl to treat dementia associated with…”.

How do you spell donepezil?

Donepezil is spelled D-O-N-E-P-E-Z-I-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for donepezil in either form.

donepezilthe right spelling17,940 searches a month
donezepilz in place of p, p in place of z420 searches a month

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 donepezil mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A drug taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₄H₂₉NO₃·HCl to treat dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease

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

How do you pronounce donepezil?

  • US /ˌdɑnˈɛp.əz.ɪl/
  • US /doʊˈnɛp.əz.ɪl/

Donepezil has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

How common is donepezil?

Donepezil appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).