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benzimidazole

noun

benzimidazole is a noun meaning “A bicyclic heterocycle containing a benzene ring fused to that of imidazole; it is used as a pesticide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-Z-I-M-I-D-A-Z-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benzimidazole is benzimidazoles.

What does benzimidazole mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A bicyclic heterocycle containing a benzene ring fused to that of imidazole; it is used as a pesticide

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

Forms of benzimidazole

  • benzimidazoles plural

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

How common is benzimidazole?

Benzimidazole appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).