Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wood alcohol

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables: wood al-co-hol
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Originally manufactured by the destructive distillation of wood.

Usage

Inflected Forms

wood alcohols (plural)

Synonyms

wood spirit methanol methyl alcohol

Questions

What does wood alcohol mean?: The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.
Where does wood alcohol come from?: Originally manufactured by the destructive distillation of wood.

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