raloxifene
ral·ox·i·fene/ɹəˈlɑk.sɪˌfin/noun
raloxifene is spelled R-A-L-O-X-I-F-E-N-E, 4 syllables: ral·ox·i·fene. The wrong spelling people search most is reloxifene: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 122 of all searches for the word. Raloxifene is a noun meaning “A drug with the chemical formula C₂₈H₂₇NO₄S, used orally as prophylaxis against osteoporosis after menopause”.
How many letters and syllables are in raloxifene?
| Letters | 10: R-A-L-O-X-I-F-E-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: ral·ox·i·fene |
| In writing | about once in every 19 million words; the 133,440th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, reloxifene, about 30 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 raloxifene?
Raloxifene is spelled R-A-L-O-X-I-F-E-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 122 of the searches for raloxifene 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 raloxifene?
Raloxifene appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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 raloxifene?
- UK /ɹəˈlɒk.sɪˌfiːn/
- US /ɹəˈlɑk.sɪˌfin/
Raloxifene has 4 syllables, split ral·ox·i·fene in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of raloxifene
- raloxifen
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does raloxifene mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A drug with the chemical formula C₂₈H₂₇NO₄S, used orally as prophylaxis against osteoporosis after menopause.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate raloxifene?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of raloxifene: RLX, ralox.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does raloxifene come from?
From ral- (of unknown origin) + -oxifene (“tamoxifen derivative”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).