alcohol

Other forms of alcohol

plural

alcohols·

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 alcohol

What does alcohol mean?

alcohol means "a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alcohol?

alcohol has 3 syllables: al-co-hol. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˈælkəˌhɑl/.

What is another word for alcohol?

Close synonyms include alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant. 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 alcohol a common word?

alcohol is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.