meperidine
/məˈpɛɹ.ɪˌdin/noun
meperidine is a noun meaning “The United States Adopted Name of pethidine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-P-E-R-I-D-I-N-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of meperidine is meperidines.
What does meperidine mean?
noun
- 1
The United States Adopted Name of pethidine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce meperidine?
- UK /mɛˈpɛ.ɹɪ.diːn/
- US /məˈpɛɹ.ɪˌdin/
Meperidine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of meperidine
- meperidines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is meperidine?
Meperidine appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 meperidine come from?
Blend of methyl + piperidine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).