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sulfanilamide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables
sul-fanil-amide
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of amino substituted aromatic sulfonamides that are used as antifungal antibiotics; but especially the parent compound 4-aminobenzenesulfonamide

Etymology

From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”).

Inflected Forms

sulfanilamides (plural) sulphanilamide (alternative, UK)

Frequently Paired Words

sulfa sulpha

Questions

What does sulfanilamide mean?
Any of a class of amino substituted aromatic sulfonamides that are used as antifungal antibiotics; but especially the parent compound 4-aminobenzenesulfonamide
Where does sulfanilamide come from?
From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”).

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