fluorouracil
/ˌflʊə.ɹə(ʊ)ˈjʊə.ɹə.sɪl/noun
fluorouracil is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-U-R-A-C-I-L. The wrong spelling people search most is flurouracil: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 90 of all searches for the word. Fluorouracil is a noun meaning “A fluorine-substituted derivative of uracil C₄H₃FN₂O₂ which inhibits DNA synthesis and is used as a…”. The plural of fluorouracil is fluorouracils.
How do you spell fluorouracil?
Fluorouracil is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-U-R-A-C-I-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 90 of the searches for fluorouracil 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 fluorouracil mean?
noun
- 1
A fluorine-substituted derivative of uracil C₄H₃FN₂O₂ which inhibits DNA synthesis and is used as a chemotherapy drug in the treatment of cancer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluorouracil?
- UK /ˌflʊə.ɹə(ʊ)ˈjʊə.ɹə.sɪl/
- UK /ˌflɔː.ɹə(ʊ)ˈjʊə.ɹə.sɪl/
- UK /ˌflɔː.ɹə(ʊ)ˈjɔː.ɹə.sɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluorouracil
- fluorouracils plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorouracil?
Fluorouracil appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 fluorouracil come from?
From fluoro- + uracil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).