nephrotoxic
adjective
nephrotoxic is an adjective meaning “Toxic to the kidneys” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-R-O-T-O-X-I-C, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does nephrotoxic mean?
adjective
- 1
Toxic to the kidneys.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nephrotoxic
- more nephrotoxic comparative
- most nephrotoxic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nephrotoxic?
Nephrotoxic appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Nephrotoxic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense poisonous to kidney tissue:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | néphrotoxique |
| German | nephrotoxisch |
| Portuguese | nefrotóxico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does nephrotoxic come from?
From nephro- + toxic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).