lamotrigine
/ləˈmɑ.tɹɪˌd͡ʒin/noun
lamotrigine is a noun meaning “An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-M-O-T-R-I-G-I-N-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does lamotrigine mean?
noun
- 1
An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lamotrigine?
- US /ləˈmɑ.tɹɪˌd͡ʒin/
Lamotrigine has 4 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 lamotrigine?
Lamotrigine appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
Lamotrigine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | lamotrigina |
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 lamotrigine come from?
Perhaps from (ch)l(oro)- + am(in)o- + -trigine (“signal transduction modulator”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).