neurotransmitter
noun
neurotransmitter is spelled N-E-U-R-O-T-R-A-N-S-M-I-T-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is neurotransmiter: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 54 of all searches for the word. Neurotransmitter is a noun meaning “Any substance, such as acetylcholine or dopamine, responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse…”. The plural of neurotransmitter is neurotransmitters.
How do you spell neurotransmitter?
Neurotransmitter is spelled N-E-U-R-O-T-R-A-N-S-M-I-T-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 54 of the searches for neurotransmitter 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.
What does neurotransmitter mean?
noun
- 1
Any substance, such as acetylcholine or dopamine, responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neurons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce neurotransmitter?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-neurotransmitter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of neurotransmitter
- neurotransmitters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is neurotransmitter?
Neurotransmitter appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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).
Neurotransmitter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense substance responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neu:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | neurotransmetteur |
| German | Neurotransmitter |
| Portuguese | neurotransmissor |
| Spanish | neurotransmisor |
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 neurotransmitter come from?
From neuro- + transmitter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).