resorcinol
/ɹəˈzɔː(ɹ)sɪnɒl/noun
resorcinol is a noun meaning “The diphenol meta-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild antiseptic and in many industrial applications; isomeric with catechol and hydroquinone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-O-R-C-I-N-O-L, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of resorcinol is resorcinols.
What does resorcinol mean?
noun
- 1
The diphenol meta-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild antiseptic and in many industrial applications; isomeric with catechol and hydroquinone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce resorcinol?
- /ɹəˈzɔː(ɹ)sɪnɒl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of resorcinol
- resorcinols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is resorcinol?
Resorcinol appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).