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monounsaturated

adjective

monounsaturated is an adjective meaning “having a single double or triple bond” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-N-O-U-N-S-A-T-U-R-A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does monounsaturated mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    having a single double or triple bond

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

How do you pronounce monounsaturated?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-monounsaturated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is monounsaturated?

Monounsaturated appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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 monounsaturated come from?

From mono- + unsaturated.

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