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diradical

noun

diradical is spelled D-I-R-A-D-I-C-A-L: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, diradical means “A divalent radical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of diradical is diradicals.

How many letters and syllables are in diradical?

Letters9: D-I-R-A-D-I-C-A-L
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is diradical?

Diradical appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

Forms of diradical

  • diradicals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does diradical mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A divalent radical

  2. 2

    A free radical having a two unpaired electrons

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does diradical come from?

From di- + radical.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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