benzine
noun
benzine is a noun meaning “benzene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-Z-I-N-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benzine is benzines.
What does benzine mean?
noun
- 1
benzene
- 2
any flammable petroleum distillate used as a solvent or fuel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce benzine?
- US
Benzine has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-benzine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of benzine
- benzines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is benzine?
Benzine appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).