chlorohydrin
noun
chlorohydrin is a noun meaning “Any halohydrin in which the halogen is chlorine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-O-H-Y-D-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chlorohydrin is chlorohydrins.
What does chlorohydrin mean?
noun
- 1
Any halohydrin in which the halogen is chlorine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chlorohydrin
- chlorohydrins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chlorohydrin?
Chlorohydrin appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).
Chlorohydrin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemical compound:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | cloridrina |
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.
Where does chlorohydrin come from?
From chloro- + hydr- + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).