statin
/ˈstætɪn/
"statin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“statin” is uncommon English (frequency #50,820 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,820
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of a class of drugs (chiefly lactones or pyrroles) that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | statin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstætɪn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “statin” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
statin is uncommon English at frequency #50,820 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈstætɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for statin, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the suffix -statin, from terms such as lovastatin and simvastatin. The correct English form is statin, spelled S-T-A-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Any of a class of drugs (chiefly lactones or pyrroles) that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.
- 2An inhibiting hormone; a hormone that is involved primarily in inhibiting the release of another hormone.
Etymology
From the suffix -statin, from terms such as lovastatin and simvastatin.
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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Using “statin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-A-T-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.