Sterol

6 lettersnounrare

Updated June 2026

Definition

Any of a class of naturally occurring steroid alcohols found in plants and animals, typically waxy, solid, and insoluble in water.

“Cholesterol is the most familiar sterol found in animal tissues.”

Pronunciation

Syllables

ster·ol

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Wordle

Contains E and O as vowels with no repeated letters, the STEROL pattern is useful for eliminating many letters at once.

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Scrabble

Worth 6 points, six distinct letters with no repeats make it a useful rack-clearing word.

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Anagrams of Sterol

Words that use exactly the same letters as “sterol”.

ostler

Words you can make from Sterol

Shorter words formed from the letters in “sterol”.

lerot lores loser orles orlet orsel relot roles rosel roset rotes rotls rotse slote soler sorel soter stero stole store telos toles tores torse

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7-letter words you can spell by adding one letter to “sterol”.

bolster colters corslet estriol florets holster hostler lectors lobster loiters looters

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