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tenofovir

noun

tenofovir is spelled T-E-N-O-F-O-V-I-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tenofovir means “A particular antiretroviral drug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tenofovir?

Letters9: T-E-N-O-F-O-V-I-R
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is tenofovir?

Tenofovir appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 tenofovir?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tenofovir.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does tenofovir mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A particular antiretroviral drug.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does tenofovir come from?

From [Term?] + -fovir (“phosphonic acid derivative”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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