varenicline
/vəˈɹɛn.ɪk.lɪn/noun
varenicline is spelled V-A-R-E-N-I-C-L-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is varenidine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 588 of all searches for the word. Varenicline is a noun meaning “A drug taken orally in the form of its tartrate C₁₃H₁₃N₃·C₄H₆O₆ as an aid to stop smoking. It binds to…”.
How do you spell varenicline?
Varenicline is spelled V-A-R-E-N-I-C-L-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 603 of the searches for varenicline 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 varenicline mean?
noun
- 1
A drug taken orally in the form of its tartrate C₁₃H₁₃N₃·C₄H₆O₆ as an aid to stop smoking. It binds to nicotinic cell receptors to block the activity of nicotine while also acting as an agonist to reduce nicotine cravings and withdrawal symptoms. It is marketed under the trademark Chantix.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce varenicline?
- US /vəˈɹɛn.ɪk.lɪn/
Varenicline has 4 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 varenicline?
Varenicline appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 varenicline come from?
From vare- (of unknown origin) + -nicline (“nicotinic cholinergic receptor agonist”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).