papaverine
noun
papaverine is spelled P-A-P-A-V-E-R-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is papavarine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 38 of all searches for the word. Papaverine is a noun meaning “A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some…”. The plural of papaverine is papaverines.
How many letters and syllables are in papaverine?
| Letters | 10: P-A-P-A-V-E-R-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, papavarine, about 20 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 papaverine?
Papaverine is spelled P-A-P-A-V-E-R-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for papaverine 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 papaverine?
Papaverine appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Forms of papaverine
- papaverines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does papaverine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Papaverine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pharmaceutical drug:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Papaverin |
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 papaverine come from?
From Latin papāver (“poppy”) + English -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).