saleratus

Questions about saleratus

What does saleratus mean?

saleratus means "a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid".

How many syllables are in saleratus?

saleratus has 4 syllables and divides as sa-le-ra-tus 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 saleratus?

Close synonyms include bicarbonate of soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, baking soda. 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 saleratus a common word?

saleratus 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.