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lactitol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lac-ti-tol
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sugar alcohol, 4-O-α-D-galactopyranosyl-D-glucitol, derived from lactulose; it is used as an artificial sweetener (E966).

Uncountable

Etymology

From lact- + -itol.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

lactitols (plural)

Questions

What does lactitol mean?
A sugar alcohol, 4-O-α-D-galactopyranosyl-D-glucitol, derived from lactulose; it is used as an artificial sweetener (E966).
Where does lactitol come from?
From lact- + -itol.

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