ergocalciferol

Questions about ergocalciferol

What does ergocalciferol mean?

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

How many syllables are in ergocalciferol?

ergocalciferol has 6 syllables and divides as er-go-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 ergocalciferol?

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

ergocalciferol 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.