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organosulfur

adjective, noun

organosulfur is spelled O-R-G-A-N-O-S-U-L-F-U-R: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, organosulfur means “Describing any of a series of derivatives of sulfur that have at least one alkyl or aryl group, especially one containing at least one carbon-sulfur…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in organosulfur?

Letters12: O-R-G-A-N-O-S-U-L-F-U-R
In writingabout once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is organosulfur?

Organosulfur appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).

Forms of organosulfur

  • organosulphur
  • organosulfurs plural

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

What does organosulfur mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Describing any of a series of derivatives of sulfur that have at least one alkyl or aryl group, especially one containing at least one carbon-sulfur bond.

noun

  1. 1

    Any such organic compound.

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

Where does organosulfur come from?

From organo- + sulfur.

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

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