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car·bol·icadjective, noun

carbolic is spelled C-A-R-B-O-L-I-C: 8 letters and 3 syllables (car·bol·ic). It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, carbolic means “of, relating to or containing carbolic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in carbolic?

Letters8: C-A-R-B-O-L-I-C
Syllables3: car·bol·ic
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is carbolic?

Carbolic appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 carbolic?

    Carbolic has 3 syllables, split car·bol·ic in writing.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of carbolic

    • carbolics plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does carbolic mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    adjective

    1. 1

      of, relating to or containing carbolic acid

    noun

    1. 1

      Carbolic acid or similar disinfectant.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does carbolic come from?

    Derived from German Carbolsäure (modern German Karbolsäure), which was coined in 1834 by its discoverer Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge. By surface analysis, carb- + -ol + -ic.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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