hydroxyethyl
noun
hydroxyethyl is a noun meaning “The univalent radical HO-CH₂-CH₂- derived from ethylene glycol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-E-T-H-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydroxyethyl is hydroxyethyls.
What does hydroxyethyl mean?
noun
- 1
The univalent radical HO-CH₂-CH₂- derived from ethylene glycol
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydroxyethyl
- hydroxyethyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxyethyl?
Hydroxyethyl appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).