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gemcitabine

/d͡ʒɛmˈsaɪ.təˌbin/noun

gemcitabine is spelled G-E-M-C-I-T-A-B-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is gencitabine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 97 of all searches for the word. Gemcitabine is a noun meaning “A particular drug used in chemotherapy”.

How many letters and syllables are in gemcitabine?

Letters11: G-E-M-C-I-T-A-B-I-N-E
Syllables4 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, gencitabine, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell gemcitabine?

Gemcitabine is spelled G-E-M-C-I-T-A-B-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 98 of the searches for gemcitabine in either form.

gemcitabinethe right spelling1,930 searches a month
gencitabinen in place of m20 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.

How common is gemcitabine?

Gemcitabine appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 gemcitabine?

  • US /d͡ʒɛmˈsaɪ.təˌbin/

Gemcitabine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

What rhymes with gemcitabine?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as gemcitabine from its last stressed vowel (/aɪtəbin/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does gemcitabine mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A particular drug used in chemotherapy.

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

Where does gemcitabine come from?

From [Term?] + -citabine (“cytarabine or azacytidine derivative”).

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

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