thioether
noun
thioether is a noun meaning “Any analogue of an ether, or general formula RSR', in which the oxygen has been replaced by sulfur; an organic sulfide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-E-T-H-E-R, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thioether is thioethers.
What does thioether mean?
noun
- 1
Any analogue of an ether, or general formula RSR', in which the oxygen has been replaced by sulfur; an organic sulfide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thioether
- thioethers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thioether?
Thioether appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Thioether in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense analogue of an ether in which the oxygen has been replaced by sulfur:
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.
Where does thioether come from?
From thio- + ether.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).