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trimethyl

noun

trimethyl is spelled T-R-I-M-E-T-H-Y-L: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trimethyl means “Three methyl groups in a molecule” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in trimethyl?

Letters9: T-R-I-M-E-T-H-Y-L
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 127,184th 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 trimethyl?

Trimethyl appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 trimethyl?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-trimethyl.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does trimethyl mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Three methyl groups in a molecule.

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

Where does trimethyl come from?

From tri- + methyl.

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

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