hydroxychloroquine
/haɪˌdɹɑk.siˈklɔɹ.ə.kwɪn/noun
hydroxychloroquine is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-C-H-L-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is hydrochloroquine: about 410 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 50 of all searches for the word. Hydroxychloroquine is a noun meaning “A drug derived from quinolone that is taken orally in the form of its sulfate C₁₈H₂₆ClN₃O·H₂SO₄ to treat…”.
How do you spell hydroxychloroquine?
Hydroxychloroquine is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-C-H-L-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 50 of the searches for hydroxychloroquine 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.
What does hydroxychloroquine mean?
noun
- 1
A drug derived from quinolone that is taken orally in the form of its sulfate C₁₈H₂₆ClN₃O·H₂SO₄ to treat malaria, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus erythematosus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydroxychloroquine?
- UK /hʌɪˌdɹɒk.sɪˈklɔː.ɹə(ʊ).kwiːn/
- UK /hʌɪˌdɹɒk.sɪˈklɔː.ɹə(ʊ).kwɪn/
- US /haɪˌdɹɑk.siˈklɔɹ.ə.kwɪn/
Hydroxychloroquine has 6 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxychloroquine?
Hydroxychloroquine 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 abbreviate hydroxychloroquine?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of hydroxychloroquine: HCQ, hydroxy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hydroxychloroquine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quinoline drug:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydroxychloroquine |
| German | Hydroxychloroquin |
| Portuguese | hidroxicloroquina |
| Spanish | hidroxicloroquina |
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.
Where does hydroxychloroquine come from?
From hydroxy- + chloroquine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).