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phytoestrogen

/ˌfaɪ.toʊˈɛ.stɹəd͡ʒ.ən/noun

phytoestrogen is spelled P-H-Y-T-O-E-S-T-R-O-G-E-N: 13 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, phytoestrogen means “A substance found in certain plants (such as genistein) which can produce effects like that of the hormone estrogen when ingested into the body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of phytoestrogen is phytoestrogens.

How many letters and syllables are in phytoestrogen?

Letters13: P-H-Y-T-O-E-S-T-R-O-G-E-N
Syllables5 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is phytoestrogen?

Phytoestrogen appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 phytoestrogen?

  • UK /ˌfaɪ.təʊˈiː.stɹəd͡ʒ.ən/
  • US /ˌfaɪ.toʊˈɛ.stɹəd͡ʒ.ən/

Phytoestrogen has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

What rhymes with phytoestrogen?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as phytoestrogen from its last stressed vowel (/ɛstɹədʒən/):

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 phytoestrogen

  • phytoestrogens plural

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

What does phytoestrogen mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A substance found in certain plants (such as genistein) which can produce effects like that of the hormone estrogen when ingested into the body.

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

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