cyclopropane
noun
cyclopropane is a noun meaning “The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₃H₆, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-P-R-O-P-A-N-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyclopropane is cyclopropanes.
What does cyclopropane mean?
noun
- 1
The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₃H₆, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cyclopropane?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-cyclopropane.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cyclopropane
- cyclopropanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyclopropane?
Cyclopropane appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Cyclopropane in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C3H6:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cyclopropane |
| German | Cyclopropan |
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.