pyridoxine
/ˌpɪɹɪˈdɒksɪn/noun
pyridoxine is spelled P-Y-R-I-D-O-X-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is pyroxidine: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Pyridoxine is a noun meaning “A derivative of pyridine, 4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpyridin-3-ol, found in fish, liver, cereals and…”. The plural of pyridoxine is pyridoxines.
How do you spell pyridoxine?
Pyridoxine is spelled P-Y-R-I-D-O-X-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 pyridoxine 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.
What does pyridoxine mean?
noun
- 1
A derivative of pyridine, 4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpyridin-3-ol, found in fish, liver, cereals and yeast, and essential for the metabolism of amino acids and starch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pyridoxine?
- /ˌpɪɹɪˈdɒksɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pyridoxine
- pyridoxines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pyridoxine?
Pyridoxine appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).
Pyridoxine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense derivative of pyridine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pyridoxine |
| German | Pyridoxin |
| Spanish | piridoxina |
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 pyridoxine come from?
From pyrid(ine) + ox(ygen) + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).