penicillamine
/ˌpɛn.ɪˈsɪl.ə.miːn/noun
penicillamine is spelled P-E-N-I-C-I-L-L-A-M-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is penicilamine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Penicillamine is a noun meaning “A crystalline, sulfur-containing amino acid produced by the hydrolysis of penicillins, used pharmacologically…”. The plural of penicillamine is penicillamines.
How many letters and syllables are in penicillamine?
| Letters | 13: P-E-N-I-C-I-L-L-A-M-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, penicilamine, about 10 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 penicillamine?
Penicillamine is spelled P-E-N-I-C-I-L-L-A-M-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for penicillamine 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 penicillamine?
Penicillamine appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 penicillamine?
- /ˌpɛn.ɪˈsɪl.ə.miːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of penicillamine
- penicillamines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does penicillamine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A crystalline, sulfur-containing amino acid produced by the hydrolysis of penicillins, used pharmacologically as a chelating agent to remove heavy metals such as copper from the body, and as an anti-inflammatory agent, especially for rheumatoid arthritis; 2-amino-3-methyl-3-mercaptobutanoic acid, (CH₃)₂C(SH)CH(NH₂)COOH.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Penicillamine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense breakdown product of penicillin:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | penicilamina |
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 penicillamine come from?
Blend of penicillin + amine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).