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lovastatin

/ˈloʊ.vəˌstæt.n̩/noun

lovastatin is spelled L-O-V-A-S-T-A-T-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is lavastatin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 278 of all searches for the word. Lovastatin is a noun meaning “A statin that inhibits the synthesis of cholesterol”. The plural of lovastatin is lovastatins.

How do you spell lovastatin?

Lovastatin is spelled L-O-V-A-S-T-A-T-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 274 of the searches for lovastatin in either form.

lovastatinthe right spelling2,730 searches a month
lavastatina in place of o10 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 lovastatin mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A statin that inhibits the synthesis of cholesterol.

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

How do you pronounce lovastatin?

  • UK /ləʊ.vəˈstat.ɪn/
  • UK /ləʊˈvas.tət.ɪn/
  • US /ˈloʊ.vəˌstæt.n̩/

Lovastatin 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).

Forms of lovastatin

  • lovastatins plural

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

How common is lovastatin?

Lovastatin appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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 lovastatin come from?

Probably blend of (meva)lonate + mevastatin.

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