venlafaxine
/ˌvɛn.ləˈfækˌsiːn/noun
venlafaxine is spelled V-E-N-L-A-F-A-X-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is venlaxafine: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 137 of all searches for the word. Venlafaxine is a noun meaning “A drug that functions as an SNRI and is used in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₇H₂₇NO₂·HCl especially to…”. The plural of venlafaxine is venlafaxines.
How do you spell venlafaxine?
Venlafaxine is spelled V-E-N-L-A-F-A-X-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 137 of the searches for venlafaxine 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 venlafaxine mean?
noun
- 1
A drug that functions as an SNRI and is used in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₇H₂₇NO₂·HCl especially to treat depression, anxiety, and panic disorder. It is marketed under the trademark Effexor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce venlafaxine?
- US /ˌvɛn.ləˈfækˌsiːn/
Venlafaxine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of venlafaxine
- venlafaxines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is venlafaxine?
Venlafaxine appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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 venlafaxine come from?
Probably from venla- (of unknown origin) + ph(enyl) + -ax- (“alteration of (cycloh)exa(ne)”) + (am)ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).