tetrabenazine
/ˌtɛ.tɹəˈbɛn.əˌziːn/noun
tetrabenazine is a noun meaning “A serotonin antagonist C₁₉H₂₇NO₃ that is used especially in the treatment of psychosis and anxiety” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-B-E-N-A-Z-I-N-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does tetrabenazine mean?
noun
- 1
A serotonin antagonist C₁₉H₂₇NO₃ that is used especially in the treatment of psychosis and anxiety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tetrabenazine?
- US /ˌtɛ.tɹəˈbɛn.əˌziːn/
Tetrabenazine has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetrabenazine?
Tetrabenazine appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).
Where does tetrabenazine come from?
Probably from tetra(hydro) + ben(zo)- + az(a)- + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).