alanyl
/ˈæ.lə.nɪl/noun
alanyl is a noun meaning “The univalent acyl radical, CH₃CH(NH₂)CO-, derived from the amino acid alanine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-A-N-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of alanyl is alanyls.
What does alanyl mean?
noun
- 1
The univalent acyl radical, CH₃CH(NH₂)CO-, derived from the amino acid alanine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce alanyl?
- /ˈæ.lə.nɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of alanyl
- alanyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is alanyl?
Alanyl appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 alanyl come from?
From alanine + -yl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).