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muscimol

/ˈmʌskɪmɒl/noun

muscimol is spelled M-U-S-C-I-M-O-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, muscimol means “A hallucinogenic alkaloid present in the fly agaric and other related fungi; 3-hydroxy-5-aminomethylisoxazole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in muscimol?

Letters8: M-U-S-C-I-M-O-L
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is muscimol?

Muscimol appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 muscimol?

  • /ˈmʌskɪmɒl/
  • /ˈmʌsɪmɒl/

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

What does muscimol mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A hallucinogenic alkaloid present in the fly agaric and other related fungi; 3-hydroxy-5-aminomethylisoxazole.

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

Where does muscimol come from?

From German Muscimol, from Latin musc(arius) (in Amanita muscaria) + im(ine) + -ol.

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

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