cyclopentane
noun
cyclopentane is a noun meaning “An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₅H₁₀; a volatile inflammable liquid, sometimes used as a solvent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-N-T-A-N-E, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyclopentane is cyclopentanes.
What does cyclopentane mean?
noun
- 1
An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₅H₁₀; a volatile inflammable liquid, sometimes used as a solvent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyclopentane
- cyclopentanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyclopentane?
Cyclopentane appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Cyclopentane in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense alicyclic hydrocarbon, C5H10:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cyclopentane |
| German | Cyclopentan |
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.