ovoflavin

Questions about ovoflavin

What does ovoflavin mean?

ovoflavin means "a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss".

How many syllables are in ovoflavin?

ovoflavin has 4 syllables and divides as o-vo-fla-vin 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 ovoflavin?

Close synonyms include vitamin B2, vitamin G, riboflavin, lactoflavin, hepatoflavin. 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 ovoflavin a common word?

ovoflavin 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.