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chloroethyl

noun

chloroethyl is a noun meaning “Any chloro derivative of an ethyl radical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-O-E-T-H-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chloroethyl is chloroethyls.

What does chloroethyl mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any chloro derivative of an ethyl radical

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

Forms of chloroethyl

  • chloroethyls plural

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

How common is chloroethyl?

Chloroethyl appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

Where does chloroethyl come from?

From chloro- + ethyl.

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