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thujone

noun

thujone is spelled T-H-U-J-O-N-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, thujone means “Either of two isomers of a bicyclic monoterpenoid ketone found in several aromatic plants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of thujone is thujones.

How many letters and syllables are in thujone?

Letters7: T-H-U-J-O-N-E
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is thujone?

Thujone appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).

How do you pronounce thujone?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-thujone.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of thujone

  • thujones plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does thujone mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Either of two isomers of a bicyclic monoterpenoid ketone found in several aromatic plants.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does thujone come from?

From the genus name translingual Thuja + -one.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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