povidone
noun
povidone is spelled P-O-V-I-D-O-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is povidine: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Povidone is a noun meaning “A powdered form of polyvinylpyrrolidone that is used as a dispersing and suspending agent in drugs”. The plural of povidone is povidones.
How many letters and syllables are in povidone?
| Letters | 8: P-O-V-I-D-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, povidine, about 70 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 povidone?
Povidone is spelled P-O-V-I-D-O-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for povidone 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 povidone?
Povidone appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Forms of povidone
- povidones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does povidone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A powdered form of polyvinylpyrrolidone that is used as a dispersing and suspending agent in drugs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does povidone come from?
Shortened from polyvinylpyrrolidone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).