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maltitol

/ˈmɔːltəˌtɑl/noun

maltitol is spelled M-A-L-T-I-T-O-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maltitol means “A disaccharide polyol used as a sugar substitute, produced through the hydrogenation of maltose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maltitol is maltitols.

How many letters and syllables are in maltitol?

Letters8: M-A-L-T-I-T-O-L
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st 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 maltitol?

Maltitol appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 maltitol?

  • /ˈmɔːltəˌtɑl/

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

Forms of maltitol

  • maltitols plural

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

What does maltitol mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A disaccharide polyol used as a sugar substitute, produced through the hydrogenation of maltose.

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

Where does maltitol come from?

From malt + -itol.

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

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