hydrocortisone
/ˌhaɪ.dɹoʊˈkɔɹ.tɪˌsoʊn/noun
hydrocortisone is a noun meaning “Name used for cortisol, a glucocorticoid steroid hormone, when used as a medication. Used to treat e.g. inflammation resulting from rheumatism and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-C-O-R-T-I-S-O-N-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrocortisone is hydrocortisones.
What does hydrocortisone mean?
noun
- 1
Name used for cortisol, a glucocorticoid steroid hormone, when used as a medication. Used to treat e.g. inflammation resulting from rheumatism and eczema.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrocortisone?
- UK /ˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈkɔː.tɪ.zəʊn/
- US /ˌhaɪ.dɹoʊˈkɔɹ.tɪˌsoʊn/
Hydrocortisone has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-hydrocortisone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hydrocortisone
- hydrocortisones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrocortisone?
Hydrocortisone 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).
Hydrocortisone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Hydrokortison, Hydrocortison |
| Portuguese | hidrocortisona |
| Spanish | hidrocortisona |
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.