rituximab
/ɹɪˈtʌk.sɪˌmæb/noun
rituximab is spelled R-I-T-U-X-I-M-A-B. The wrong spelling people search most is rituximub: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 588 of all searches for the word. Rituximab is a noun meaning “A chimeric monoclonal antibody (trademark Rituxan) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat…”. The plural of rituximab is rituximabs.
How many letters and syllables are in rituximab?
| Letters | 9: R-I-T-U-X-I-M-A-B |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 94,827th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, rituximub, 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 rituximab?
Rituximab is spelled R-I-T-U-X-I-M-A-B. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 591 of the searches for rituximab 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 rituximab?
Rituximab appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th 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 rituximab?
- US /ɹɪˈtʌk.sɪˌmæb/
Rituximab has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rituximab
- rituximabs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rituximab mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A chimeric monoclonal antibody (trademark Rituxan) administered by intravenous injection especially to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia by binding to the protein CD20 found on the surface of B cells and causing their lysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate rituximab?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of rituximab: RTX.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does rituximab come from?
From [Term?] + -tu- (“tumor”) + -ximab (“chimeric monoclonal antibody”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).