acétonitrile
French, noun/a.se.tɔ.ni.tʁil/
acétonitrile is spelled A-C-É-T-O-N-I-T-R-I-L-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acétonitrile is a French masculine noun meaning “acetonitrile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé organique de la classe des nitriles et ayant la formule N≡C−CH₃”.
What does acétonitrile mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineacetonitrile
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Composé organique de la classe des nitriles et ayant la formule N≡C−CH₃.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acétonitrile
- acétonitriles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acétonitrile?
- /a.se.tɔ.ni.tʁil/
- \a.se.to.ni.tʁil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is acétonitrile in French?
acétonitrile appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).