prilocaine
/ˈpɹɪl.əˌkeɪn/noun
prilocaine is spelled P-R-I-L-O-C-A-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is pilocaine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Prilocaine is a noun meaning “A local anesthetic related to lidocaine and used in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₃H₂₀N₂O·HCl as a nerve…”.
How many letters and syllables are in prilocaine?
| Letters | 10: P-R-I-L-O-C-A-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pilocaine, about 10 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 prilocaine?
Prilocaine is spelled P-R-I-L-O-C-A-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for prilocaine 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 prilocaine?
Prilocaine appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 prilocaine?
- US /ˈpɹɪl.əˌkeɪn/
Prilocaine has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prilocaine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A local anesthetic related to lidocaine and used in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₃H₂₀N₂O·HCl as a nerve block for pain especially in surgery and dentistry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does prilocaine come from?
From propyl + amino + -caine (“local anesthetic”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).