midazolam
/mʌɪˈdeɪ.zə(ʊ).lam/
"midazolam" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“midazolam” is uncommon English (frequency #64,537 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,537
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sedative of the benzodiazepine class, used (as the hydrochloride) chiefly as a premedication for anesthesia; 8-chloro-6-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-methyl-4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine, C₁₈H₁₃ClFN₃.
Corpus desk
Index EN-midazolam · midazolam · English
midazolam · rank #64,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,537
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Metis
Nearest frequency peer: Metis (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “midazolam”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- megaton
megaton
35,469 corpus weight
- mell
mell
35,468 corpus weight
- mescaline
mescaline
35,466 corpus weight
- Metis
Metis
35,465 corpus weight
- midazolam
midazolam
35,464 corpus weight
- miming
miming
35,462 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “midazolam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | midazolam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mʌɪˈdeɪ.zə(ʊ).lam/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “midazolam” in English
Rare enough to double-check
midazolam is uncommon English at frequency #64,537 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mʌɪˈdeɪ.zə(ʊ).lam/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sedative of the benzodiazepine class, used (as the hydrochloride) chiefly as a premedication for anesthesia; 8-chloro-6-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-methyl-4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine, C₁₈H₁₃ClFN₃.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for midazolam, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of (i)midazole + -azepam. The correct English form is midazolam, spelled M-I-D-A-Z-O-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1A sedative of the benzodiazepine class, used (as the hydrochloride) chiefly as a premedication for anesthesia; 8-chloro-6-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-methyl-4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine, C₁₈H₁₃ClFN₃.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how midazolam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I got the vial of midazolam out of the crash trolley and squeezed the contents into the patientʼs mouth.
Etymology
Blend of (i)midazole + -azepam.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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