phenergan

Questions about phenergan

What does phenergan mean?

phenergan means "antihistamine (trade name Phenergan) used to treat allergies; also an antiemetic used to treat motion sickness".

How many syllables are in phenergan?

phenergan has 3 syllables and divides as phe-ner-gan 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 phenergan?

Close synonyms include promethazine. 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 phenergan a common word?

phenergan 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.