viosterol

Questions about viosterol

What does viosterol mean?

viosterol means "a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets".

How many syllables are in viosterol?

viosterol has 4 syllables and divides as vi-o-ste-rol 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 viosterol?

Close synonyms include vitamin D, calciferol, ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol, D. 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 viosterol a common word?

viosterol 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.