imatinib
noun
imatinib is spelled I-M-A-T-I-N-I-B. The wrong spelling people search most is imatanib: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 92 of all searches for the word. Imatinib is a noun meaning “A drug used to treat certain types of cancer”.
How many letters and syllables are in imatinib?
| Letters | 8: I-M-A-T-I-N-I-B |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, imatanib, about 20 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 imatinib?
Imatinib is spelled I-M-A-T-I-N-I-B. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 92 of the searches for imatinib 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 imatinib?
Imatinib appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).
What does imatinib mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A drug used to treat certain types of cancer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does imatinib come from?
Origin unknown; the suffix -tinib denotes a pharmaceutical drug that is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).