piperazine
/paɪˈpɛrəziːn/noun
piperazine is spelled P-I-P-E-R-A-Z-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is piperizine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Piperazine is a noun meaning “A saturated heterocyclic compound, C₄H₁₀N₂, containing two nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring; it is used…”. The plural of piperazine is piperazines.
How many letters and syllables are in piperazine?
| Letters | 10: P-I-P-E-R-A-Z-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 161,690th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, piperizine, 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 piperazine?
Piperazine is spelled P-I-P-E-R-A-Z-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for piperazine 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 piperazine?
Piperazine appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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 piperazine?
- /paɪˈpɛrəziːn/
- /pɪˈpɛrəziːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-piperazine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of piperazine
- piperazines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does piperazine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A saturated heterocyclic compound, C₄H₁₀N₂, containing two nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring; it is used as an anthelmintic.
- 2
Any derivative of this compound
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Piperazine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense organic compound:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pipérazine |
| German | Piperazin |
| Portuguese | piperazina |
| Spanish | piperazina |
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 piperazine come from?
After German Piperazin, from piper(idine) + azine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).