spermicidal

1. 1.

   destructive to spermatozoa

Questions about spermicidal

What does spermicidal mean?

spermicidal means "destructive to spermatozoa".

How many syllables are in spermicidal?

spermicidal has 4 syllables and divides as sper-mi-ci-dal 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 spermicidal a common word?

spermicidal 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.