anthraquinone
/ˌænθɹəkwɪˈnoʊn/noun
anthraquinone is spelled A-N-T-H-R-A-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is anthroquinone: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Anthraquinone is a noun meaning “A tricyclic quinone, derived from anthracene”. The plural of anthraquinone is anthraquinones.
How many letters and syllables are in anthraquinone?
| Letters | 13: A-N-T-H-R-A-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, anthroquinone, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell anthraquinone?
Anthraquinone is spelled A-N-T-H-R-A-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for anthraquinone in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is anthraquinone?
Anthraquinone appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 anthraquinone?
- US /ˌænθɹəkwɪˈnoʊn/
- US /-ˈkwaɪnoʊn/
Anthraquinone has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-anthraquinone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with anthraquinone?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as anthraquinone from its last stressed vowel (/oʊn/):
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 anthraquinone
- anthraquinones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anthraquinone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tricyclic quinone, derived from anthracene.
- 2
Any derivative of this parent compound, mostly natural pigments or synthetic dyes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anthraquinone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tricyclic quinone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anthraquinone |
| Portuguese | antraquinona |
| Spanish | antraquinona |
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 anthraquinone come from?
From anthra- + quinone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).