benzofuran
noun
benzofuran is a noun meaning “Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a benzene ring fused with one of furan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-Z-O-F-U-R-A-N, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benzofuran is benzofurans.
What does benzofuran mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a benzene ring fused with one of furan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of benzofuran
- benzofurans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is benzofuran?
Benzofuran appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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).
Benzofuran in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense class of bicyclic heterocycles:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | benzofurano |
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.