calciferol

Questions about calciferol

What does calciferol mean?

calciferol means "a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets".

How many syllables are in calciferol?

calciferol has 4 syllables and divides as cal-ci-fe-rol 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 calciferol?

Close synonyms include vitamin D, viosterol, ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol, D. 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 calciferol a common word?

calciferol 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.