cresol

Questions about cresol

What does cresol mean?

cresol means "any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant".

How many syllables are in cresol?

cresol has 2 syllables and divides as cre-sol 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 cresol?

Close synonyms include methyl phenol. 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 cresol a common word?

cresol 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.