hydron
noun
hydron is a noun meaning “any hydrogen cation, e.g. a proton (¹H⁺)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydron is hydrons.
What does hydron mean?
noun
- 1
any hydrogen cation, e.g. a proton (¹H⁺)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydron?
- US
Hydron has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hydron.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hydron
- hydrons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydron?
Hydron 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).
Where does hydron come from?
From hydro- + -on.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).