flumazenil
/fluˈmæz.əˌnɪl/noun
flumazenil is a noun meaning “A benzodiazepine antagonist used to counter drowsiness caused by benzodiazepines” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-M-A-Z-E-N-I-L and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flumazenil mean?
noun
- 1
A benzodiazepine antagonist used to counter drowsiness caused by benzodiazepines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flumazenil?
- US /fluˈmæz.əˌnɪl/
Flumazenil has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flumazenil
- flumazepil
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flumazenil?
Flumazenil appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
Where does flumazenil come from?
Probably from flu(oro)- + m(ethyl) + -azenil (“benzodiazepine derivative”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).