arene
/ˈæɹiːn/noun
arene is a noun meaning “Any monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-E-N-E, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of arene is arenes.
What does arene mean?
noun
- 1
Any monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce arene?
- /ˈæɹiːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-arene.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of arene
- arenes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is arene?
Arene appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Arene in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon:
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 arene come from?
From ar(omatic) + -ene.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).