minocycline
/ˌmɪn.oʊˈsaɪˌklin/noun
minocycline is spelled M-I-N-O-C-Y-C-L-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is minocydine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 556 of all searches for the word. Minocycline is a noun meaning “A semisynthetic tetracycline derivative used (as the hydrochloride C₂₃H₂₇N₃O₇·HCl) as a broad-spectrum…”.
How many letters and syllables are in minocycline?
| Letters | 11: M-I-N-O-C-Y-C-L-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, minocydine, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell minocycline?
Minocycline is spelled M-I-N-O-C-Y-C-L-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 557 of the searches for minocycline 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.
How common is minocycline?
Minocycline appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).
How do you pronounce minocycline?
- UK /ˌmʌɪ.nəʊˈsʌɪ.kliːn/
- US /ˌmɪn.oʊˈsaɪˌklin/
Minocycline has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with minocycline?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as minocycline from its last stressed vowel (/aɪklin/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does minocycline mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A semisynthetic tetracycline derivative used (as the hydrochloride C₂₃H₂₇N₃O₇·HCl) as a broad-spectrum antibiotic and anti-inflammatory agent to treat bacterial and other infections.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does minocycline come from?
From (a)mino- + -cycline (“tetracycline derivative”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).