vancomycin
/ˌvæŋ.kəˈmaɪ.sɪn/noun
vancomycin is spelled V-A-N-C-O-M-Y-C-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is vanomycin: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 278 of all searches for the word. Vancomycin is a noun meaning “A glycopeptide antibiotic C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄ produced by the actinomycete Amycolaptosis orientalis, used in the…”.
How do you spell vancomycin?
Vancomycin is spelled V-A-N-C-O-M-Y-C-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 281 of the searches for vancomycin 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 vancomycin mean?
noun
- 1
A glycopeptide antibiotic C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄ produced by the actinomycete Amycolaptosis orientalis, used in the form of its hydrochloride C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄·HCl against Gram-positive bacteria, especially staphylococci resistant to meticillin and enterococci.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vancomycin?
- /ˌvæŋ.kəˈmaɪ.sɪn/
Vancomycin has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vancomycin?
Vancomycin appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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 abbreviate vancomycin?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of vancomycin: vanc, vanco.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vancomycin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vancomycine |
| Portuguese | vancomicina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vancomycin come from?
From vanquish + -o- + -mycin (“antibiotic produced by a Streptomyces strain”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).