chloromethyl
noun
chloromethyl is a noun meaning “The univalent radical Cl-CH₂-” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-O-M-E-T-H-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chloromethyl is chloromethyls.
What does chloromethyl mean?
noun
- 1
The univalent radical Cl-CH₂-
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chloromethyl
- chloromethyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chloromethyl?
Chloromethyl appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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 chloromethyl come from?
From chloro- + methyl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).