cyanohydrin
noun
cyanohydrin is a noun meaning “Any compound having both a hydroxy and a cyanide functional group, especially one having these groups attached to the same carbon atom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-O-H-Y-D-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyanohydrin is cyanohydrins.
What does cyanohydrin mean?
noun
- 1
Any compound having both a hydroxy and a cyanide functional group, especially one having these groups attached to the same carbon atom
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cyanohydrin?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-cyanohydrin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cyanohydrin
- cyanohydrins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyanohydrin?
Cyanohydrin 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).