xylene
/ˈzaɪliːn/noun
xylene is a noun meaning “Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-Y-L-E-N-E, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of xylene is xylenes.
What does xylene mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce xylene?
- /ˈzaɪliːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-xylene.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of xylene
- xylenes plural
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How common is xylene?
Xylene appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th 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).
Xylene in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense di-methyl-benzene:
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Where does xylene come from?
From xyl- + -ene.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).