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mirtazapine

/mɪɹˈtæz.əˌpin/noun

mirtazapine is spelled M-I-R-T-A-Z-A-P-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is mitazapine: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 294 of all searches for the word. Mirtazapine is a noun meaning “An antidepressant drug C₁₇H₁₉N₃ taken orally especially to treat major depressive disorder. It is marketed…”. The plural of mirtazapine is mirtazapines.

How many letters and syllables are in mirtazapine?

Letters11: M-I-R-T-A-Z-A-P-I-N-E
Syllables4 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 133,440th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, mitazapine, about 120 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 mirtazapine?

Mirtazapine is spelled M-I-R-T-A-Z-A-P-I-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 251 of the searches for mirtazapine in either form.

mirtazapinethe right spelling35,050 searches a month
mitazapinea missing r120 searches a month
mitrazepiner and t swapped, e in place of a20 searches a month

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 mirtazapine?

Mirtazapine appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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 mirtazapine?

  • US /mɪɹˈtæz.əˌpin/

Mirtazapine 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 mirtazapine?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mirtazapine from its last stressed vowel (/æzəpin/):

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).

Forms of mirtazapine

  • mirtazapines plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mirtazapine mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An antidepressant drug C₁₇H₁₉N₃ taken orally especially to treat major depressive disorder. It is marketed under the trademark Remeron.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does mirtazapine come from?

Probably from m(ethyl) + irt- (“inversion of tri-”) + aza- (“nitrogen”) + -apine (“psychoactive tricyclic compound”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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