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loperamide

/loʊˈpɛɹ.əˌmaɪd/noun

loperamide is spelled L-O-P-E-R-A-M-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is loperimide: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Loperamide is a noun meaning “A synthetic antidiarrheal agent of the opiate class (trademark Imodium) that slows intestinal peristalsis and…”.

How do you spell loperamide?

Loperamide is spelled L-O-P-E-R-A-M-I-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for loperamide in either form.

loperamidethe right spelling13,820 searches a month
loperimidei in place of a420 searches a month

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 loperamide mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A synthetic antidiarrheal agent of the opiate class (trademark Imodium) that slows intestinal peristalsis and is taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₉H₃₃ClN₂O₂·HCl to control acute nonspecific diarrhea or chronic diarrhea associated with inflammatory bowel disease or to reduce fecal volume discharged from ileostomies.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce loperamide?

  • UK /ləʊˈpɛ.ɹə.mʌɪd/
  • US /loʊˈpɛɹ.əˌmaɪd/

Loperamide 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 loperamide?

Loperamide appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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).

Where does loperamide come from?

From (ch)lo(ro)- + (pi)per(idine) + -amide.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).