cyclohexanone
noun
cyclohexanone is a noun meaning “The alicyclic ketone obtained from cyclohexane by the replacement of a methylene group by a carbonyl group” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-H-E-X-A-N-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyclohexanone is cyclohexanones.
What does cyclohexanone mean?
noun
- 1
The alicyclic ketone obtained from cyclohexane by the replacement of a methylene group by a carbonyl group.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyclohexanone
- cyclohexanones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyclohexanone?
Cyclohexanone appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Cyclohexanone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cyclohexanone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | ciclohexanona |
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.