mercurochrome
noun
mercurochrome is spelled M-E-R-C-U-R-O-C-H-R-O-M-E. The wrong spelling people search most is mercurichrome: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 28 of all searches for the word. Mercurochrome is a noun meaning “merbromin”. The plural of mercurochrome is mercurochromes.
How do you spell mercurochrome?
Mercurochrome is spelled M-E-R-C-U-R-O-C-H-R-O-M-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 28 of the searches for mercurochrome 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.
What does mercurochrome mean?
noun
- 1
merbromin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mercurochrome
- mercurochromes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mercurochrome?
Mercurochrome appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 mercurochrome come from?
From a trademark.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).