pentamidine
/pɛnˈtæm.ɪ.diːn/noun
pentamidine is spelled P-E-N-T-A-M-I-D-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is pentamdine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 89 of all searches for the word. Pentamidine is a noun meaning “A synthetic antibiotic drug used chiefly in the form of its salt C₂₃H₃₆N₄O₁₀S₂ especially to treat protozoal…”. The plural of pentamidine is pentamidines.
How many letters and syllables are in pentamidine?
| Letters | 11: P-E-N-T-A-M-I-D-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pentamdine, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 pentamidine?
Pentamidine is spelled P-E-N-T-A-M-I-D-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 89 of the searches for pentamidine 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 pentamidine?
Pentamidine appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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 pentamidine?
- /pɛnˈtæm.ɪ.diːn/
Pentamidine has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pentamidine
- pentamidines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pentamidine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A synthetic antibiotic drug used chiefly in the form of its salt C₂₃H₃₆N₄O₁₀S₂ especially to treat protozoal infections (such as leishmaniasis) and to prevent pneumocystis pneumonia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does pentamidine come from?
From pent- + -amidine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).