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forskolin

noun

forskolin is spelled F-O-R-S-K-O-L-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is forscolin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 80 of all searches for the word. Forskolin is a noun meaning “A labdane diterpene produced by the plant Plectranthus barbatus or Coleus barbatus var. barbatus (syn. Coleus…”. The plural of forskolin is forskolins.

How do you spell forskolin?

Forskolin is spelled F-O-R-S-K-O-L-I-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for forskolin in either form.

forskolinthe right spelling790 searches a month
forscolinc in place of k10 searches a month
foskolina missing r10 searches a month

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 forskolin mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A labdane diterpene produced by the plant Plectranthus barbatus or Coleus barbatus var. barbatus (syn. Coleus forskohlii), commonly used in the study and research of cell physiology.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of forskolin

  • forskolins plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is forskolin?

Forskolin appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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 forskolin come from?

From an obsolete name, Plectranthus forskolaei, for the plant Coleus barbatus. That name is from the name of the Swedish explorer Peter Forsskål.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).