hydrocyanic
adjective
hydrocyanic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to hydrocyanic acid or its compounds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-C-Y-A-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydrocyanic mean?
adjective
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Of or pertaining to hydrocyanic acid or its compounds
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrocyanic?
Hydrocyanic appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Hydrocyanic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to hydrocyanic acid or its compounds:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cyanhydrique |
| Portuguese | cianídrico |
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 hydrocyanic come from?
From hydro- + cyanic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).