hydroxyurea
noun
hydroxyurea is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-U-R-E-A. The wrong spelling people search most is hydroxyuria: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 99 of all searches for the word. Hydroxyurea is a noun meaning “The hydroxylated derivative of urea, NH₂CO-NHOH, used as an antineoplastic drug; any N- or O- derivative of…”. The plural of hydroxyurea is hydroxyureas.
How many letters and syllables are in hydroxyurea?
| Letters | 11: H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-U-R-E-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hydroxyuria, about 50 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 hydroxyurea?
Hydroxyurea is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-U-R-E-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 99 of the searches for hydroxyurea 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 hydroxyurea?
Hydroxyurea appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).
Forms of hydroxyurea
- hydroxyureas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hydroxyurea mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The hydroxylated derivative of urea, NH₂CO-NHOH, used as an antineoplastic drug; any N- or O- derivative of this compound
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).