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enantioselectivity

noun

enantioselectivity is spelled E-N-A-N-T-I-O-S-E-L-E-C-T-I-V-I-T-Y: 18 letters. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, enantioselectivity means “The selectivity of a reaction towards one of a pair of enantiomers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of enantioselectivity is enantioselectivities.

How many letters and syllables are in enantioselectivity?

Letters18: E-N-A-N-T-I-O-S-E-L-E-C-T-I-V-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd 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 enantioselectivity?

Enantioselectivity appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 enantioselectivity

  • enantioselectivities plural

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

What does enantioselectivity mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The selectivity of a reaction towards one of a pair of enantiomers

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

Where does enantioselectivity come from?

From enantio- + selectivity.

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

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