vancocin

1. 1.

   an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections

   Synonymsvancomycin

   Broaderantibiotic

   trade name

Other forms of vancocin

plural

vancocins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vancocin

What does vancocin mean?

vancocin means "an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections".

How many syllables are in vancocin?

vancocin has 3 syllables: van-co-cin. The stress falls on "van".

What is another word for vancocin?

Close synonyms include vancomycin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vancocin a common word?

vancocin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.