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nifedipine

/naɪˈfɛd.ɪˌpin/noun

nifedipine is spelled N-I-F-E-D-I-P-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is nifedepine: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 119 of all searches for the word. Nifedipine is a noun meaning “A synthetic compound which acts as a calcium antagonist and is used as a coronary vasodilator in the…”. The plural of nifedipine is nifedipines.

How do you spell nifedipine?

Nifedipine is spelled N-I-F-E-D-I-P-I-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 63 of the searches for nifedipine in either form.

nifedipinethe right spelling15,420 searches a month
nifedepinee in place of i130 searches a month
nifidepinei in place of e, e in place of i120 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.

What does nifedipine mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A synthetic compound which acts as a calcium antagonist and is used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of cardiac and circulatory disorders.

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

How do you pronounce nifedipine?

  • UK /nʌɪˈfɛd.ɪ.piːn/
  • US /naɪˈfɛd.ɪˌpin/
  • US /nɪˈfɛd.ɪˌpin/

Nifedipine has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of nifedipine

  • nifedipines plural

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

How common is nifedipine?

Nifedipine appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).

Where does nifedipine come from?

From ni(tro)phe(nyl) + di(hydro)p(yrid)ine.

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