estrogen

Other forms of estrogen

plural

estrogens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about estrogen

What does estrogen mean?

estrogen means "a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics".

How many syllables are in estrogen?

estrogen has 3 syllables: es-tro-gen. The stress falls on "es". In IPA it is /ˈɛstɹədʒən/.

What is another word for estrogen?

Close synonyms include oestrogen. 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 estrogen a common word?

estrogen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.