benzoquinone
noun
benzoquinone is a noun meaning “Either of the two isomeric forms of the simplest quinone, C₆H₄O₂, or any of their derivatives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-Z-O-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benzoquinone is benzoquinones.
What does benzoquinone mean?
noun
- 1
Either of the two isomeric forms of the simplest quinone, C₆H₄O₂, or any of their derivatives.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of benzoquinone
- benzoquinones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is benzoquinone?
Benzoquinone appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).
Benzoquinone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense forms of the simplest quinone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | benzoquinona |
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.