metoprolol
/məˈtoʊ.pɹəˌlɔl/noun
metoprolol is spelled M-E-T-O-P-R-O-L-O-L. The wrong spelling people search most is metroprolol: about 1,590 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Metoprolol is a noun meaning “A beta-blocking drug related to propranolol, used to treat hypertension and angina”.
How do you spell metoprolol?
Metoprolol is spelled M-E-T-O-P-R-O-L-O-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for metoprolol 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 metoprolol mean?
noun
- 1
A beta-blocking drug related to propranolol, used to treat hypertension and angina.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce metoprolol?
- UK /mɪˈtɒp.ɹə.lɒl/
- US /məˈtoʊ.pɹəˌlɔl/
Metoprolol has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-metoprolol.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-metoprolol.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is metoprolol?
Metoprolol appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 metoprolol come from?
From metho(xy) + pro(prano)lol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).