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polyether

noun

polyether is spelled P-O-L-Y-E-T-H-E-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, polyether means “a polymer, such as an elastomer, in which carbon atoms of the repeating units are joined by a single oxygen atom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of polyether is polyethers.

How many letters and syllables are in polyether?

Letters9: P-O-L-Y-E-T-H-E-R
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st 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 polyether?

Polyether appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 polyether

  • polyethers plural

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

What does polyether mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    a polymer, such as an elastomer, in which carbon atoms of the repeating units are joined by a single oxygen atom

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

How do you abbreviate polyether?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of polyether: PE.

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

Where does polyether come from?

From poly- + ether.

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

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