veronal
noun
veronal is a noun meaning “A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does veronal mean?
noun
- 1
A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce veronal?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-veronal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is veronal?
Veronal appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
Veronal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense barbiturate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | veronal |
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 veronal come from?
Former trade name, after the Italian city Verona.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).