thioridazine
/ˌθaɪ.əˈɹɪd.əˌziːn/noun
thioridazine is a noun meaning “A synthetic compound derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer, chiefly in the treatment of mental illness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-R-I-D-A-Z-I-N-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thioridazine is thioridazines.
What does thioridazine mean?
noun
- 1
A synthetic compound derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer, chiefly in the treatment of mental illness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thioridazine?
- UK /ˌθʌɪ.ə(ʊ).ɹɪˈdeɪ.ziːn/
- US /ˌθaɪ.əˈɹɪd.əˌziːn/
Thioridazine has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thioridazine
- thioridazines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thioridazine?
Thioridazine appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 thioridazine come from?
From thio- + (pipe)rid(ine) + (phenothi)azine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).