orthomolecular
adjective
orthomolecular is an adjective meaning “Relating to the theory that human health, including mental illness, depends upon chemical deficiencies and can be cured with vitamins etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-T-H-O-M-O-L-E-C-U-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does orthomolecular mean?
adjective
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Relating to the theory that human health, including mental illness, depends upon chemical deficiencies and can be cured with vitamins etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is orthomolecular?
Orthomolecular appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Orthomolecular in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the theory that human health depends upon chemical deficiencies:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | orthomoléculaire |
| Portuguese | ortomolecular |
| Spanish | ortomolecular |
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.