thioester
noun
thioester is a noun meaning “Any of several classes of organic compound in which one or both oxygen atoms of an ester group are replaced by those of sulfur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-E-S-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thioester is thioesters.
What does thioester mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several classes of organic compound in which one or both oxygen atoms of an ester group are replaced by those of sulfur
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thioester
- thioesters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thioester?
Thioester appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).