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filipin

/fɪlɪˈpinaʊ/noun

filipin is a noun meaning “A potent antifungal chemical first isolated from the actinomycete Streptomyces filipinensis, widely used as a histochemical stain for cholesterol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-I-P-I-N, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does filipin mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A potent antifungal chemical first isolated from the actinomycete Streptomyces filipinensis, widely used as a histochemical stain for cholesterol.

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

How do you pronounce filipin?

  • /fɪlɪˈpinaʊ/

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

How common is filipin?

Filipin appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).