bromo-seltzer

1. 1.

   an antacid

   Broaderantacid

   trademark

Questions about bromo-seltzer

What does bromo-seltzer mean?

bromo-seltzer means "an antacid".

How many syllables are in bromo-seltzer?

bromo-seltzer has 4 syllables and divides as bro-mo--selt-zer 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.

Is bromo-seltzer a common word?

bromo-seltzer 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.