phenobarbitone

Questions about phenobarbitone

What does phenobarbitone mean?

phenobarbitone means "a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative".

How many syllables are in phenobarbitone?

phenobarbitone has 5 syllables and divides as phe-no-bar-bi-tone 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 phenobarbitone?

Close synonyms include sodium thiopental, phenobarbital, Luminal, purple heart. 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 phenobarbitone a common word?

phenobarbitone 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.