intravenous
/ɪntɹəˈviːnəs/adjective, noun
intravenous is spelled I-N-T-R-A-V-E-N-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is intraveneous: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 147 of all searches for the word. Intravenous is an adjective meaning “Inside the veins”.
How do you spell intravenous?
Intravenous is spelled I-N-T-R-A-V-E-N-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 146 of the searches for intravenous 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 intravenous mean?
adjective
- 1
Inside the veins.
noun
- 1
A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
Get his morphine intravenous started stat!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce intravenous?
- UK /ɪntɹəˈviːnəs/
Intravenous has 4 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)-Vealhurl-intravenous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is intravenous?
Intravenous appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd 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 intravenous?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of intravenous: IV, i.v..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Intravenous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | intraveineux, endoveineux |
| German | intravenös |
| Portuguese | intravenoso, endovenoso , intravenosa |
| Spanish | intravenoso, endovenoso , suero, infusión |
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 intravenous come from?
From intra- + venous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).