paraxylene
noun
paraxylene is a noun meaning “An aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene with two methyl substituents” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-X-Y-L-E-N-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paraxylene is paraxylenes.
What does paraxylene mean?
noun
- 1
An aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene with two methyl substituents.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paraxylene
- paraxylenes plural
- para-xylene
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paraxylene?
Paraxylene appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 paraxylene come from?
From para- + xylene.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).