stearin
/ˈstɪəɹɪn/noun
stearin is a noun meaning “Solid fat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-A-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stearin is stearins.
What does stearin mean?
noun
- 1
Solid fat.
- 2
A glyceride (especially the triglyceride) of stearic acid
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce stearin?
- /ˈstɪəɹɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stearin
- stearins plural
- stearine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stearin?
Stearin appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Stearin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the triglyceride of stearic acid:
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 stearin come from?
From French stéarine, from Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “fat”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).