isoflurane
/ˌaɪ.səˈflʊɹˌeɪn/noun
isoflurane is spelled I-S-O-F-L-U-R-A-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is isoflourane: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Isoflurane is a noun meaning “A halogenated ether, 2-chloro-2-(difluoromethoxy)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, that is used as an inhalation…”.
How many letters and syllables are in isoflurane?
| Letters | 10: I-S-O-F-L-U-R-A-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, isoflourane, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell isoflurane?
Isoflurane is spelled I-S-O-F-L-U-R-A-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for isoflurane 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 isoflurane?
Isoflurane appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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 pronounce isoflurane?
- US /ˌaɪ.səˈflʊɹˌeɪn/
Isoflurane has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with isoflurane?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as isoflurane from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹeɪn/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does isoflurane mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A halogenated ether, 2-chloro-2-(difluoromethoxy)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, that is used as an inhalation anesthetic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does isoflurane come from?
From iso- + enflurane.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).