alizarin
/əˈlɪzəɹɪn/noun
alizarin is a noun meaning “A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-I-Z-A-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of alizarin is alizarins.
What does alizarin mean?
noun
- 1
A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce alizarin?
- UK /əˈlɪzəɹɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of alizarin
- alizarins plural
- alizarine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is alizarin?
Alizarin appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).
Alizarin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone:
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.
Where does alizarin come from?
Borrowed from French alizarine, corresponding to alizari + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).