acylation
/ˌeɪsɪˈleɪʃən/noun
acylation is spelled A-C-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, acylation means “The process of adding an acyl group to a compound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of acylation is acylations.
How many letters and syllables are in acylation?
| Letters | 9: A-C-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th 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; 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 acylation?
Acylation appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 acylation?
- /ˌeɪsɪˈleɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-acylation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with acylation?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as acylation.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: claytonia.
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 acylation
- acylations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acylation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process of adding an acyl group to a compound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acylation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the process of adding an acyl to a compound:
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 acylation come from?
From acyl + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).