butanone
noun
butanone is spelled B-U-T-A-N-O-N-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, butanone means “A simple aliphatic ketone, CH₃CH₂COCH₃, prepared industrially as a solvent, for use in the manufacture of paints, parts cleaning, and other tasks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of butanone is butanones.
How many letters and syllables are in butanone?
| Letters | 8: B-U-T-A-N-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is butanone?
Butanone appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).
What rhymes with butanone?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as butanone.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nanotube.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of butanone
- butanones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does butanone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A simple aliphatic ketone, CH₃CH₂COCH₃, prepared industrially as a solvent, for use in the manufacture of paints, parts cleaning, and other tasks.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Butanone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the simple aliphatic ketone: CH3CH2COCH3:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | butanone |
| Portuguese | butanona |
| Spanish | butanona, metiletilcetona |
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.