norepinephrine
/ˌnɔːɹɛpɪˈnɛfɹɪn/noun
norepinephrine is spelled N-O-R-E-P-I-N-E-P-H-R-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is norephinephrine: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 169 of all searches for the word. Norepinephrine is a noun meaning “A neurotransmitter found in the locus coeruleus which is synthesized from dopamine”. The plural of norepinephrine is norepinephrines.
How many letters and syllables are in norepinephrine?
| Letters | 14: N-O-R-E-P-I-N-E-P-H-R-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, norephinephrine, about 30 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 norepinephrine?
Norepinephrine is spelled N-O-R-E-P-I-N-E-P-H-R-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 171 of the searches for norepinephrine 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 norepinephrine?
Norepinephrine appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd 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 norepinephrine?
- /ˌnɔːɹɛpɪˈnɛfɹɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-norepinephrine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of norepinephrine
- norepinephrines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does norepinephrine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A neurotransmitter found in the locus coeruleus which is synthesized from dopamine.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:norepinephrine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate norepinephrine?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of norepinephrine: NE.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Norepinephrine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense norepinephrine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Norepinephrin |
| Spanish | norepinefrina |
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 norepinephrine come from?
From nor- + epinephrine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).