hydrosol
noun
hydrosol is a noun meaning “A sol (solid-in-liquid colloid) in which the continuous phase (dispersing medium) is water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-S-O-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrosol is hydrosols.
What does hydrosol mean?
noun
- 1
A sol (solid-in-liquid colloid) in which the continuous phase (dispersing medium) is water.
Meronyms: hydrocolloid, water
- 2
An herbal distillate: an aqueous product, made from plants (especially herbs) via steam distillation (usually specifically hydrodistillation); such a product is a colloidal suspension of essential oils that also has some water-soluble components dissolved in the water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrosol?
Hydrosol has 3 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 hydrosol
- hydrosols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrosol?
Hydrosol appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).
Hydrosol in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sol in which the continuous phase is water:
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 hydrosol come from?
From hydro- + sol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).