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enol

/ˈiːn.ɒl/noun

enol is spelled E-N-O-L: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, enol means “An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of enol is enols.

How many letters and syllables are in enol?

Letters4: E-N-O-L
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is enol?

Enol appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).

How do you pronounce enol?

  • /ˈiːn.ɒl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-enol.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with enol?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as enol.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: lone, noel, leno.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of enol

  • enols plural

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

What does enol mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.

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

Enol in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which is doubly bon:

LanguageWords
Frenchénol
Portugueseenol
Spanishenol

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.

Where does enol come from?

Clipping of alkenol.

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

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