thiamine

Questions about thiamine

What does thiamine mean?

thiamine means "a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth".

How many syllables are in thiamine?

thiamine has 3 syllables and divides as thi-a-mine 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 thiamine?

Close synonyms include vitamin B1, thiamin, aneurin, antiberiberi factor. 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 thiamine a common word?

thiamine 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.