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azole

/ˈæz.oʊl/noun

azole is a noun meaning “Any of a class of five-membered unsaturated heterocycles having three carbon atoms, one nitrogen atom and two double bonds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Z-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of azole is azoles.

What does azole mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of a class of five-membered unsaturated heterocycles having three carbon atoms, one nitrogen atom and two double bonds

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

How do you pronounce azole?

  • /ˈæz.oʊl/
  • /əˈzoʊl/

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

Forms of azole

  • azoles plural

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

How common is azole?

Azole appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).

Azole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense organic compound:

LanguageWords
Frenchazole
Spanishazol

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 azole come from?

From azo- + -ole.

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