Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hand-sanitizer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English

Syllables: hand-san-i-tiz-er
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of hand sanitizer.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"You also might consider one of those hand-sanitizers, just to be sure you’re killing all the nasty germs that can have the whole family fighting over the toilet."
"The next time you stay in a hotel, you might want to bring some extra hand-sanitizer."
"I like to think about it this way: If you use hand-sanitizer on your hand and you don’t have a cut, no problem. But if you have something that already irritated your hand, it’s going to sting and burn and be way more painful. Same thing happens in the airway."

Usage

Inflected Forms

hand-sanitizers (plural)

Questions

What does hand-sanitizer mean?: Alternative form of hand sanitizer.

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