scopolamine
/skə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ə.miːn/
"scopolamine" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scopolamine” is uncommon English (frequency #87,795 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,795
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A poisonous alkaloid C₁₇H₂₁NO₄ similar to atropine that is found in various solanaceous plants and is used for its anticholinergic effects (such as preventing nausea in motion sickness and inducing...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scopolamine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ə.miːn/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scopolamine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scopolamine is uncommon English at frequency #87,795 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /skə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ə.miːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A poisonous alkaloid C₁₇H₂₁NO₄ similar to atropine that is found in various solanaceous plants and is used for its anticholinergic effects (such as preventing nausea in motion sickness and inducing...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scopolamine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Skopolamin, from translingual Scopolia (“genus of plants”) + German Amin (“amine”). The correct English form is scopolamine, spelled S-C-O-P-O-L-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A poisonous alkaloid C₁₇H₂₁NO₄ similar to atropine that is found in various solanaceous plants and is used for its anticholinergic effects (such as preventing nausea in motion sickness and inducing mydriasis).
Etymology
Borrowed from German Skopolamin, from translingual Scopolia (“genus of plants”) + German Amin (“amine”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is S-C-O-P-O-L-A-M-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.