alcohol
al·co·hol/ˈæl.kə.hɔl/noun
alcohol is spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L, 3 syllables: al·co·hol. The wrong spelling people search most is alchol: about 930 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Alcohol is a noun meaning “Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH)”. The plural of alcohol is alcohols.
How many letters and syllables are in alcohol?
| Letters | 7: A-L-C-O-H-O-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: al·co·hol |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, alchol, about 930 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell alcohol?
Alcohol is spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for alcohol in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is alcohol?
Alcohol appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce alcohol?
- UK /ˈæl.kə.hɒl/
- US /ˈæl.kə.hɔl/
- US /ˈæl.kə.hɑl/
Alcohol has 3 syllables, split al·co·hol in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-alcohol.ogg, En-us-alcohol.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of alcohol
- alcohols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alcohol mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
- 2
colloquialEthanol.
- 3
Beverages containing ethanol, collectively.
- 4
obsoleteAny very fine powder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate alcohol?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of alcohol: alc, alc..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Alcohol in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | alcool , boisson alcoolisée, boisson alcoolique |
| German | Alkohol , Weingeist, Branntwein (juristic) |
| Portuguese | álcool |
| Spanish | alcohol |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.