vanadyl
noun
vanadyl is a noun meaning “The divalent radical VO, or the cation VO²⁺” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-N-A-D-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vanadyl is vanadyls.
What does vanadyl mean?
noun
- 1
The divalent radical VO, or the cation VO²⁺.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vanadyl?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-vanadyl.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vanadyl
- vanadyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vanadyl?
Vanadyl appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Where does vanadyl come from?
From vanadium + -yl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).