odorant
noun, adjective
odorant is spelled O-D-O-R-A-N-T: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, odorant means “Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of odorant is odorants.
How many letters and syllables are in odorant?
| Letters | 7: O-D-O-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is odorant?
Odorant appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 odorant?
Odorant 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).
What rhymes with odorant?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as odorant.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tornado, tandoor, donator, rotonda.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of odorant
- odorants plural
- odourant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does odorant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes
adjective
- 1
Having an odour/odor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Odorant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense substance with distinctive smell:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Odoriermittel |
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.