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triethyl

noun

triethyl is spelled T-R-I-E-T-H-Y-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, triethyl means “Three ethyl groups in a compound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in triethyl?

Letters8: T-R-I-E-T-H-Y-L
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th 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 triethyl?

Triethyl appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).

What does triethyl mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Three ethyl groups in a compound

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

Where does triethyl come from?

From tri- + ethyl.

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

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