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hexene

noun

hexene is spelled H-E-X-E-N-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hexene means “Any of several isomers of the alkene having six carbon atoms and one double bond” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hexene is hexenes.

How many letters and syllables are in hexene?

Letters6: H-E-X-E-N-E
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th 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 hexene?

Hexene appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 hexene

  • hexenes plural

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

What does hexene mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several isomers of the alkene having six carbon atoms and one double bond

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

Hexene in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the alkene C6H12:

LanguageWords
GermanHexen
Spanishhexeno

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 hexene come from?

From hex- + -ene.

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

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