pharmacovigilance
phar·ma·co·vi·gi·lance/ˌfɑɹməkoʊˈvɪd͡ʒɪl(ə)ns/noun
pharmacovigilance is spelled P-H-A-R-M-A-C-O-V-I-G-I-L-A-N-C-E, 6 syllables: phar·ma·co·vi·gi·lance. The wrong spelling people search most is pharmacovigilence: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Pharmacovigilance is a noun meaning “The detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of medicines”.
How many letters and syllables are in pharmacovigilance?
| Letters | 17: P-H-A-R-M-A-C-O-V-I-G-I-L-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6: phar·ma·co·vi·gi·lance |
| In writing | about once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pharmacovigilence, 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 pharmacovigilance?
Pharmacovigilance is spelled P-H-A-R-M-A-C-O-V-I-G-I-L-A-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for pharmacovigilance 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 pharmacovigilance?
Pharmacovigilance appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 pharmacovigilance?
- UK /ˌfɑːməkəʊˈvɪd͡ʒɪl(ə)ns/
- US /ˌfɑɹməkoʊˈvɪd͡ʒɪl(ə)ns/
Pharmacovigilance has 6 syllables, split phar·ma·co·vi·gi·lance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pharmacovigilance.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does pharmacovigilance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of medicines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate pharmacovigilance?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of pharmacovigilance: PV.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pharmacovigilance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of medici:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pharmacovigilance |
| German | Pharmakovigilanz |
| Portuguese | farmacovigilância |
| Spanish | farmacovigilancia |
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 pharmacovigilance come from?
From pharmaco- + vigilance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).