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arylation

noun

arylation is a noun meaning “Any reaction that involves the addition of one or more aryl groups” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of arylation is arylations.

What does arylation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any reaction that involves the addition of one or more aryl groups

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of arylation

  • arylations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is arylation?

Arylation appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

Arylation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense any reaction that involves the addition of one or more aryl groups:

LanguageWords
Portuguesearilação

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 arylation come from?

From aryl + -ation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).