finasteride
/fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/noun
finasteride is spelled F-I-N-A-S-T-E-R-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is finsteride: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 213 of all searches for the word. Finasteride is a noun meaning “A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males”.
How many letters and syllables are in finasteride?
| Letters | 11: F-I-N-A-S-T-E-R-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, finsteride, about 110 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 finasteride?
Finasteride is spelled F-I-N-A-S-T-E-R-I-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 213 of the searches for finasteride 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 finasteride?
Finasteride appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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 finasteride?
- /fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-finasteride.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does finasteride mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate finasteride?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of finasteride: fina.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Finasteride in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense drug:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | finastéride |
| Portuguese | finasterida |
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 finasteride come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).