duloxetine
/duːˈlɑk.səˌtiːn/noun
duloxetine is spelled D-U-L-O-X-E-T-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is duloxentine: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 500 of all searches for the word. Duloxetine is a noun meaning “A drug that functions as an SNRI and is administered orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₈H₁₉NOS·HCl…”.
How many letters and syllables are in duloxetine?
| Letters | 10: D-U-L-O-X-E-T-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 143,405th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, duloxentine, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell duloxetine?
Duloxetine is spelled D-U-L-O-X-E-T-I-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 268 of the searches for duloxetine 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 duloxetine?
Duloxetine 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).
How do you pronounce duloxetine?
- US /duːˈlɑk.səˌtiːn/
Duloxetine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with duloxetine?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as duloxetine from its last stressed vowel (/ɑksətin/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does duloxetine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A drug that functions as an SNRI and is administered orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₈H₁₉NOS·HCl especially to treat depression, anxiety, and chronic pain (such as that associated with fibromyalgia and peripheral neuropathy). It is marketed under the trademark Cymbalta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does duloxetine come from?
Probably blend of du(a)l + fluoxetine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).