ethylhexyl
noun
ethylhexyl is a noun meaning “Any ethyl derivative of a hexyl radical, but especially 2-ethylhexyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-T-H-Y-L-H-E-X-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ethylhexyl is ethylhexyls.
What does ethylhexyl mean?
noun
- 1
Any ethyl derivative of a hexyl radical, but especially 2-ethylhexyl
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ethylhexyl
- ethylhexyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ethylhexyl?
Ethylhexyl appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Ethylhexyl in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | éthylhexyle |
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.