sulfone
/sʊlˈfoʊ̯n/noun
sulfone is a noun meaning “Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional group attached to two carbon atoms; drugs of this structure have been used to…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-L-F-O-N-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sulfone is sulfones.
What does sulfone mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional group attached to two carbon atoms; drugs of this structure have been used to treat leprosy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sulfone?
- US /sʊlˈfoʊ̯n/
Sulfone has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sulfone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sulfone
- sulfones plural
- sulphone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sulfone?
Sulfone appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Sulfone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense organic compound:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Sulfon |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.