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isopropanol

noun

isopropanol is spelled I-S-O-P-R-O-P-A-N-O-L: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, isopropanol means “The aliphatic alcohol 2-propanol; isopropyl alcohol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of isopropanol is isopropanols.

How many letters and syllables are in isopropanol?

Letters11: I-S-O-P-R-O-P-A-N-O-L
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st 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 isopropanol?

Isopropanol appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).

Forms of isopropanol

  • isopropanols plural

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

What does isopropanol mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The aliphatic alcohol 2-propanol; isopropyl alcohol

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

Isopropanol in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishisopropanol

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 isopropanol come from?

From iso- + propanol.

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

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