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phenylethyl

noun

phenylethyl is spelled P-H-E-N-Y-L-E-T-H-Y-L: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, phenylethyl means “Any phenyl derivative of an ethyl group” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of phenylethyl is phenylethyls.

How many letters and syllables are in phenylethyl?

Letters11: P-H-E-N-Y-L-E-T-H-Y-L
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th 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 phenylethyl?

Phenylethyl appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 phenylethyl

  • phenylethyls plural

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

What does phenylethyl mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any phenyl derivative of an ethyl group.

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

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