premenopausal

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   prior to menopause

Questions about premenopausal

What does premenopausal mean?

premenopausal means "prior to menopause".

How many syllables are in premenopausal?

premenopausal has 5 syllables and divides as pre-me-no-pau-sal 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 premenopausal a common word?

premenopausal 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.