sucrose
/ˈsukɹoʊs/noun
sucrose is spelled S-U-C-R-O-S-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sucrose means “A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sucrose is sucroses.
How many letters and syllables are in sucrose?
| Letters | 7: S-U-C-R-O-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd 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 sucrose?
Sucrose appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd 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 sucrose?
- US /ˈsukɹoʊs/
- UK /ˈsuːkɹəʊz/
- UK /ˈsjuːkɹəʊz/
Sucrose has 2 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sucrose.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sucrose?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sucrose (/ukɹoʊs/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: courses, scouser.
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 sucrose
- sucroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sucrose mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.
There were four forms of sugar interesting to the physiologist---cane sugar, grape sugar, milk sugar, and liver sugar. They might be called, for the sake of distinction, sucrose, glucose, lactose, and hepatose. The first two were vegetable,
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sucrose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a disaccharide:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | saccharose, saccarose |
| German | Saccharose |
| Portuguese | sacarose |
| Spanish | sacarosa |
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 sucrose come from?
From French sucre (“sugar”) + English -ose. By surface analysis, sucr- (“sugar”) + -ose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).