finasteride
/fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/
"finasteride" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“finasteride” is uncommon English (frequency #82,295 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,295
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.
Corpus desk
Index EN-finasteride · finasteride · English
finasteride · rank #82,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,295
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH filibustering
Nearest frequency peer: filibustering (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “finasteride”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fermat
Fermat
17,711 corpus weight
- filibusteri…
filibustering
17,707 corpus weight
- finasteride
finasteride
17,706 corpus weight
- finca
finca
17,705 corpus weight
- finial
finial
17,704 corpus weight
- Finucane
Finucane
17,703 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “finasteride” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finasteride |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “finasteride” in English
Rare enough to double-check
finasteride is uncommon English at frequency #82,295 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.".
finasteride has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fina (“possibly a coined pharmaceutical name developed by scientists at Merck”) + -steride (“a testosterone reductase inhibitor”). First use appears c. 1989 in the publication Pharmaceutical Business News. The correct English form is finasteride, spelled F-I-N-A-S-T-E-R-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.
Etymology
From fina (“possibly a coined pharmaceutical name developed by scientists at Merck”) + -steride (“a testosterone reductase inhibitor”). First use appears c. 1989 in the publication Pharmaceutical Business News.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).