fat-soluble

1. 1.

   soluble in fats

   “fat-soluble vitamin A”

   Similarsoluble

Questions about fat-soluble

What does fat-soluble mean?

fat-soluble means "soluble in fats".

How many syllables are in fat-soluble?

fat-soluble has 4 syllables and divides as fat--so-lu-ble 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 fat-soluble a common word?

fat-soluble 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.