phenol

Other forms of phenol

plural

phenols·

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 phenol

What does phenol mean?

phenol means "any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in phenol?

phenol has 2 syllables: phe-nol. The stress falls on "phe". In IPA it is /ˈfinɑl/.

What is another word for phenol?

Close synonyms include carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. 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 phenol a common word?

phenol 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.