deodorant
/diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/noun, adjective
deodorant is spelled D-E-O-D-O-R-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is deoderant: about 3,150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Deodorant is a noun meaning “Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor”. The plural of deodorant is deodorants.
How many letters and syllables are in deodorant?
| Letters | 9: D-E-O-D-O-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, deoderant, about 3,150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 deodorant?
Deodorant is spelled D-E-O-D-O-R-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for deodorant 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 deodorant?
Deodorant appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 deodorant?
- UK /diˈəʊ.də.ɹənt/
- US /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/
Deodorant 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). Recordings: En-us-deodorant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of deodorant
- deodorants plural
- deodourant rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does deodorant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
- 2
An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.
adjective
- 1
acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Deodorant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | desodorante, desodorizante |
| French | déodorant |
| German | Deodorant, Deo , geruchtilgend |
| Spanish | desodorante |
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 deodorant come from?
From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor. By surface analysis, de- + odor + -ant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).