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pentoxifylline

noun

pentoxifylline is spelled P-E-N-T-O-X-I-F-Y-L-L-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is pentoxyfylline: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Pentoxifylline is a noun meaning “A xanthine derivative used to treat vascular dementia and intermittent claudication resulting from obstructed…”.

How many letters and syllables are in pentoxifylline?

Letters14: P-E-N-T-O-X-I-F-Y-L-L-I-N-E
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, pentoxyfylline, about 100 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 pentoxifylline?

Pentoxifylline is spelled P-E-N-T-O-X-I-F-Y-L-L-I-N-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for pentoxifylline in either form.

pentoxifyllinethe right spelling4,260 searches a month
pentoxyfylliney in place of i100 searches a month
pentoxyfiliney in place of i, i in place of y, a missing l30 searches a month

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 pentoxifylline?

Pentoxifylline appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

What does pentoxifylline mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A xanthine derivative used to treat vascular dementia and intermittent claudication resulting from obstructed arteries in the limbs.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pentoxifylline in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense xanthine derivative used to treat vascular dementia and intermittent claudicatio:

LanguageWords
Spanishpentoxifilina

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.

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