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guanidine

noun

guanidine is spelled G-U-A-N-I-D-I-N-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, guanidine means “A strong base HN=C(NH₂)₂ obtained by the oxidation of guanine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of guanidine is guanidines.

How many letters and syllables are in guanidine?

Letters9: G-U-A-N-I-D-I-N-E
In writingabout once in every 40 million words; the 194,306th 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 guanidine?

Guanidine appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 guanidine

  • guanidines plural

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

What does guanidine mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A strong base HN=C(NH₂)₂ obtained by the oxidation of guanine

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

Guanidine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense organic compound:

LanguageWords
Frenchguanidine
Spanishguanidina

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.

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