thiazide
/ˈθaɪ.əˌzaɪd/noun
thiazide is a noun meaning “Any of a class of sulfur-containing drugs that increase the excretion of sodium and chloride and are used as diuretics and to assist in lowering the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-A-Z-I-D-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiazide is thiazides.
What does thiazide mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of sulfur-containing drugs that increase the excretion of sodium and chloride and are used as diuretics and to assist in lowering the blood pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thiazide?
- UK /ˈθʌɪ.əz.ʌɪd/
- US /ˈθaɪ.əˌzaɪd/
Thiazide has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thiazide
- thiazides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiazide?
Thiazide appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).