sulforaphane
noun
sulforaphane is spelled S-U-L-F-O-R-A-P-H-A-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is sulforphane: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 111 of all searches for the word. Sulforaphane is a noun meaning “An antimicrobial compound, 1-isothiocyanato-4-methylsulfinylbutane, found in many brassicas”. The plural of sulforaphane is sulforaphanes.
How do you spell sulforaphane?
Sulforaphane is spelled S-U-L-F-O-R-A-P-H-A-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 111 of the searches for sulforaphane 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.
What does sulforaphane mean?
noun
- 1
An antimicrobial compound, 1-isothiocyanato-4-methylsulfinylbutane, found in many brassicas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sulforaphane
- sulforaphanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sulforaphane?
Sulforaphane appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).