stearyl
noun
stearyl is a noun meaning “The univalent radical CH₃(CH₂)₁₇- derived from stearyl alcohol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-A-R-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stearyl is stearyls.
What does stearyl mean?
noun
- 1
The univalent radical CH₃(CH₂)₁₇- derived from stearyl alcohol
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stearyl
- stearyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stearyl?
Stearyl 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).
Where does stearyl come from?
From stearic + -yl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).