inositol
/ɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/noun
inositol is a noun meaning “A simple carbocyclic sugar (hexahydroxycyclohexane; chemical formula: C₆H₁₂O₆) which occurs in animal and plant tissue. Once treated as part of the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-O-S-I-T-O-L and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of inositol is inositols.
What does inositol mean?
noun
- 1
A simple carbocyclic sugar (hexahydroxycyclohexane; chemical formula: C₆H₁₂O₆) which occurs in animal and plant tissue. Once treated as part of the vitamin B complex, but is not a vitamin as it can be synthesized by the body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce inositol?
- UK /ʌɪˈnəʊ.sɪ.tɒl/
- US /ɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/
- US /aɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/
Inositol has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-inositol.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inositol
- inositols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is inositol?
Inositol appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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).