furan
/ˈfjʊɹ.æn/noun
furan is a noun meaning “Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-A-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furan is furans.
What does furan mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₄O.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce furan?
- UK /ˈfjʊə.ɹæn/
- US /ˈfjʊɹ.æn/
Furan has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-furan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of furan
- furans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is furan?
Furan appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).
Furan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds:
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.