antiperspirant
noun
antiperspirant is a noun meaning “A substance used to minimize perspiration (sweating), and usually applied to the underarm area” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-E-R-S-P-I-R-A-N-T, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antiperspirant is antiperspirants.
What does antiperspirant mean?
noun
- 1
A substance used to minimize perspiration (sweating), and usually applied to the underarm area.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiperspirant
- antiperspirants plural
- anti-perspirant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiperspirant?
Antiperspirant appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).
Antiperspirant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense substance used to minimize sweating:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antisudorifique |
| German | Antitranspirant |
| Portuguese | antitranspirante |
| Spanish | antitranspirante |
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 antiperspirant come from?
From anti- + perspirant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).