breathalyze

Questions about breathalyze

What does breathalyze mean?

breathalyze means "test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer".

How many syllables are in breathalyze?

breathalyze has 4 syllables and divides as bre-a-tha-lyze under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for breathalyze?

Close synonyms include breathalyse. 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 breathalyze a common word?

breathalyze is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.