fluoxetine
/fluːˈaksətiːn/noun
fluoxetine is a noun meaning “A synthetic compound which inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-X-E-T-I-N-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluoxetine is fluoxetines.
What does fluoxetine mean?
noun
- 1
A synthetic compound which inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluoxetine?
- UK /fluːˈɒk.sə.tiːn/
- US /fluːˈaksətiːn/
Fluoxetine 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 fluoxetine
- fluoxetines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluoxetine?
Fluoxetine appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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).
Fluoxetine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense SSRI antidepressant drug:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fluoxetina |
| Spanish | fluoxetina |
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.