Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vegetable oil

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: veg-etable oil
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any oil produced from plants, mostly used for cooking; sometimes used in biofuels.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

vegetable oils (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

mineral oil petroleum motor oil fuel oil

Synonyms

oil

Questions

What does vegetable oil mean?: Any oil produced from plants, mostly used for cooking; sometimes used in biofuels.

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