chloromethane
noun
chloromethane is a noun meaning “Methyl chloride, a flammable gas once used as a refrigerant, with chemical formula CH₃Cl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-O-M-E-T-H-A-N-E, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chloromethane is chloromethanes.
What does chloromethane mean?
noun
- 1
Methyl chloride, a flammable gas once used as a refrigerant, with chemical formula CH₃Cl.
- 2
Any of the chlorinated derivatives of methane.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chloromethane
- chloromethanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chloromethane?
Chloromethane 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).
Chloromethane in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | clorometano |
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 chloromethane come from?
From chloro- + methane.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).