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glycerin

/ˈɡlɪsəɹɪn/noun

glycerin is spelled G-L-Y-C-E-R-I-N: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, glycerin means “Alternative spelling of glycerine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of glycerin is glycerins.

How many letters and syllables are in glycerin?

Letters8: G-L-Y-C-E-R-I-N
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th 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 glycerin?

Glycerin appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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 glycerin?

  • /ˈɡlɪsəɹɪn/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-glycerine.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of glycerin

  • glycerins plural

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

What does glycerin mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USAlternative spelling of glycerine.

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

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