premenopausal

1. 1.

   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: pre-me-no-pau-sal. The stress falls on "no".

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.