safranine

Questions about safranine

What does safranine mean?

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

How many syllables are in safranine?

safranine has 3 syllables and divides as sa-fra-nine 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 safranine?

Close synonyms include safranin, 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 safranine a common word?

safranine 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.