glycol

Other forms of glycol

plural

glycols·

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 glycol

What does glycol mean?

glycol means "a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glycol?

glycol has 2 syllables: gly-col. The stress falls on "gly". In IPA it is /ˈɡlaɪˌkɔl/.

What is another word for glycol?

Close synonyms include ethylene glycol, ethanediol, diol, dihydric alcohol. 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 glycol a common word?

glycol 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.

What rhymes with glycol?

3 words rhyme with glycol. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.