premenstrual

1. 1.

   of or relating to or occurring during the period just before menstruation

Questions about premenstrual

What does premenstrual mean?

premenstrual means "of or relating to or occurring during the period just before menstruation".

How many syllables are in premenstrual?

premenstrual has 4 syllables and divides as pre-men-stru-al 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 premenstrual a common word?

premenstrual 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.