mitomycin
noun
mitomycin is spelled M-I-T-O-M-Y-C-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is mytomicin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Mitomycin is a noun meaning “Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces…”. The plural of mitomycin is mitomycins.
How many letters and syllables are in mitomycin?
| Letters | 9: M-I-T-O-M-Y-C-I-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 161,690th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mytomicin, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell mitomycin?
Mitomycin is spelled M-I-T-O-M-Y-C-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 70 of the searches for mitomycin 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 mitomycin?
Mitomycin appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Forms of mitomycin
- mitomycins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mitomycin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does mitomycin come from?
From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).