pyrimethamine
/ˌpɪɹ.ɪˈmɛθ.əˌmin/noun
pyrimethamine is a noun meaning “A synthetic compound derived from pyrimidine, acting as a folic acid antagonist and used in the chemoprophylaxis or treatment of malaria and in the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-Y-R-I-M-E-T-H-A-M-I-N-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pyrimethamine is pyrimethamines.
What does pyrimethamine mean?
noun
- 1
A synthetic compound derived from pyrimidine, acting as a folic acid antagonist and used in the chemoprophylaxis or treatment of malaria and in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pyrimethamine?
- UK /ˌpɪ.ɹɪˈmɛθ.ə.miːn/
- US /ˌpɪɹ.ɪˈmɛθ.əˌmin/
Pyrimethamine has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pyrimethamine
- pyrimethamines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pyrimethamine?
Pyrimethamine appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).
Where does pyrimethamine come from?
From pyrim(idine) + eth- + (di)amine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).