riboflavin

Questions about riboflavin

What does riboflavin mean?

riboflavin means "a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss".

How many syllables are in riboflavin?

riboflavin has 4 syllables and divides as ri-bo-fla-vin 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 riboflavin?

Close synonyms include vitamin B2, vitamin G, lactoflavin, ovoflavin, hepatoflavin. 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 riboflavin a common word?

riboflavin 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.