furosemide
/fjʊˈɹoʊ.səˌmaɪd/noun
furosemide is spelled F-U-R-O-S-E-M-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is furosamide: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 227 of all searches for the word. Furosemide is a noun meaning “A diuretic (trademark Lasix) used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and edema”. The plural of furosemide is furosemides.
How many letters and syllables are in furosemide?
| Letters | 10: F-U-R-O-S-E-M-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, furosamide, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell furosemide?
Furosemide is spelled F-U-R-O-S-E-M-I-D-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 210 of the searches for furosemide 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.
How common is furosemide?
Furosemide appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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).
How do you pronounce furosemide?
- US /fjʊˈɹoʊ.səˌmaɪd/
Furosemide 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 furosemide
- furosemides plural
- frusemide UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does furosemide mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A diuretic (trademark Lasix) used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and edema.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does furosemide come from?
Probably from fur(yl) + -o- + -semide (“alteration of s(ulfon)amide”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).