decongestant
/diːkənˈdʒɛstənt/noun
decongestant is a noun meaning “A drug that relieves congestion, e.g. pseudoephedrine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-C-O-N-G-E-S-T-A-N-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of decongestant is decongestants.
What does decongestant mean?
noun
- 1
A drug that relieves congestion, e.g. pseudoephedrine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce decongestant?
- UK /diːkənˈdʒɛstənt/
Decongestant has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of decongestant
- decongestants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is decongestant?
Decongestant appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).
Decongestant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense drug that relieves congestion:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | décongestionnant, décongestif |
| German | Abschwellmittel, Schleimlösemittel |
| Portuguese | descongestionante |
| Spanish | descongestivo |
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.