hydrox
noun
hydrox is a noun meaning “A breathing gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen used for its lighter weight than air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrox is hydroxes.
What does hydrox mean?
noun
- 1
A breathing gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen used for its lighter weight than air.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrox?
Hydrox 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).
Forms of hydrox
- hydroxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrox?
Hydrox appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 hydrox come from?
From an abbreviation of hydrogen + oxygen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).