escitalopram
/ˌɛs.əˈtæl.əˌpɹæm/noun
escitalopram is spelled E-S-C-I-T-A-L-O-P-R-A-M. The wrong spelling people search most is ascitalopram: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 2,000 of all searches for the word. Escitalopram is a noun meaning “A drug that functions as an SSRI and is administered orally in the form of its oxalate C₂₀H₂₁FN₂O·C₂H₂O₄ to…”.
How many letters and syllables are in escitalopram?
| Letters | 12: E-S-C-I-T-A-L-O-P-R-A-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ascitalopram, about 20 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 escitalopram?
Escitalopram is spelled E-S-C-I-T-A-L-O-P-R-A-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,988 of the searches for escitalopram 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 escitalopram?
Escitalopram appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 escitalopram?
- US /ˌɛs.əˈtæl.əˌpɹæm/
Escitalopram has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
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)-escitalopram.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with escitalopram?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as escitalopram from its last stressed vowel (/æləpɹæm/):
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 escitalopram mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A drug that functions as an SSRI and is administered orally in the form of its oxalate C₂₀H₂₁FN₂O·C₂H₂O₄ to treat depression and anxiety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Escitalopram in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense SSRI antidepressant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | escitalopram |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does escitalopram come from?
From a phonetic spelling of the letter S, with citalopram, since this drug is the (S)-stereoisomer of the earlier drug citalopram.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).