painkilling
adjective
painkilling is an adjective meaning “Reducing or eliminating pain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-I-N-K-I-L-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does painkilling mean?
adjective
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Reducing or eliminating pain.
The doctor prescribed a painkilling medication.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is painkilling?
Painkilling appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Painkilling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense reducing or eliminating pain:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | schmerzstillend |
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 painkilling come from?
From pain + killing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).