somatostatin
/soʊˌmæt.əˈstæt.ən/noun
somatostatin is spelled S-O-M-A-T-O-S-T-A-T-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is samatostatin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 83 of all searches for the word. Somatostatin is a noun meaning “A cyclopeptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that inhibits the production of certain other hormones”. The plural of somatostatin is somatostatins.
How many letters and syllables are in somatostatin?
| Letters | 12: S-O-M-A-T-O-S-T-A-T-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, samatostatin, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell somatostatin?
Somatostatin is spelled S-O-M-A-T-O-S-T-A-T-I-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 42 of the searches for somatostatin 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 somatostatin?
Somatostatin appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 somatostatin?
- UK /ˌsəʊ.mət.ə(ʊ)ˈstæt.ɪn/
- US /soʊˌmæt.əˈstæt.ən/
Somatostatin has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with somatostatin?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as somatostatin from its last stressed vowel (/ætən/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of somatostatin
- somatostatins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does somatostatin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cyclopeptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that inhibits the production of certain other hormones
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate somatostatin?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of somatostatin: SST.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does somatostatin come from?
From somato- + -statin. 1970s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).