exemestane
/ˌɛk.səˈmɛˌsteɪn/noun
exemestane is spelled E-X-E-M-E-S-T-A-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is exemestene: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 370 of all searches for the word. Exemestane is a noun meaning “An antineoplastic drug C₂₀H₂₄O₂ (trademark Aromasin) that is taken orally in the treatment of advanced breast…”.
How many letters and syllables are in exemestane?
| Letters | 10: E-X-E-M-E-S-T-A-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exemestene, 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 exemestane?
Exemestane is spelled E-X-E-M-E-S-T-A-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 377 of the searches for exemestane 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 exemestane?
Exemestane appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 exemestane?
- US /ˌɛk.səˈmɛˌsteɪn/
Exemestane 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 does exemestane mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An antineoplastic drug C₂₀H₂₄O₂ (trademark Aromasin) that is taken orally in the treatment of advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women. It is a steroidal aromatase inhibitor that suppresses the synthesis of estrogen, a hormone that acts as a growth factor for breast cancer cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does exemestane come from?
From [Term?] + -mestane (“aromatase inhibitor”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).