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remifentanil

/ˌɹɛm.ɪˈfɛn.təˌnɪl/noun

remifentanil is spelled R-E-M-I-F-E-N-T-A-N-I-L. The wrong spelling people search most is remifentanyl: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Remifentanil is a noun meaning “A potent ultra short-acting synthetic opioid (trademark Ultiva) given to patients during surgery for pain…”.

How do you spell remifentanil?

Remifentanil is spelled R-E-M-I-F-E-N-T-A-N-I-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for remifentanil in either form.

remifentanilthe right spelling340 searches a month
remifentanyly in place of i40 searches a month

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 remifentanil mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A potent ultra short-acting synthetic opioid (trademark Ultiva) given to patients during surgery for pain relief and adjunctive to an anesthetic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce remifentanil?

  • US /ˌɹɛm.ɪˈfɛn.təˌnɪl/

Remifentanil has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is remifentanil?

Remifentanil appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 remifentanil come from?

From [Term?] + -fentanil (“opioid receptor agonist, analgesic”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).