phosphoryl
noun
phosphoryl is a noun meaning “the trivalent radical O=P≡” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphoryl is phosphoryls.
What does phosphoryl mean?
noun
- 1
the trivalent radical O=P≡
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce phosphoryl?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-phosphoryl.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of phosphoryl
- phosphoryls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphoryl?
Phosphoryl appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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 phosphoryl come from?
From phosphor + -yl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).