vinal
noun, adjective
vinal is a noun meaning “polyvinyl alcohol fibers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N-A-L and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vinal mean?
noun
- 1
USpolyvinyl alcohol fibers
- 2
Prosopis ruscifolia
adjective
- 1
Produced by, or originating in, wine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vinal?
Vinal 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).
Forms of vinal
- vinylal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vinal?
Vinal appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).
Where does vinal come from?
Introduced as a generic term by the Federal Trade Commission.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).