safranin

Questions about safranin

What does safranin mean?

safranin means "any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes".

How many syllables are in safranin?

safranin has 3 syllables and divides as sa-fra-nin 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 safranin?

Close synonyms include safranine, saffranine. 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 safranin a common word?

safranin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.