pyridyl
noun
pyridyl is a noun meaning “Any of three isomeric univalent radicals, C₅H₄N-, derived from pyridine; analogous to phenyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-Y-R-I-D-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pyridyl is pyridyls.
What does pyridyl mean?
noun
- 1
Any of three isomeric univalent radicals, C₅H₄N-, derived from pyridine; analogous to phenyl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pyridyl?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-pyridyl.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pyridyl
- pyridyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pyridyl?
Pyridyl appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 pyridyl come from?
From pyridine + -yl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).