hydrolyzable

1. 1.

   capable of undergoing hydrolysis

Questions about hydrolyzable

What does hydrolyzable mean?

hydrolyzable means "capable of undergoing hydrolysis".

How many syllables are in hydrolyzable?

hydrolyzable has 5 syllables and divides as hy-dro-ly-za-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 hydrolyzable a common word?

hydrolyzable 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.