fluoroquinolone
noun
fluoroquinolone is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-O-L-O-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is fluroquinolone: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Fluoroquinolone is a noun meaning “Any of a class of antibiotics (fluoro derivatives of quinolone) derived from nalidixic acid”. The plural of fluoroquinolone is fluoroquinolones.
How do you spell fluoroquinolone?
Fluoroquinolone is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-O-L-O-N-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for fluoroquinolone 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.
What does fluoroquinolone mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of antibiotics (fluoro derivatives of quinolone) derived from nalidixic acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluoroquinolone
- fluoroquinolones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluoroquinolone?
Fluoroquinolone appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).