alkyle
French, noun
alkyle is spelled A-L-K-Y-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alkyle is a French masculine noun meaning “alkyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of alkyler. With an accent, alkylé is a different word: “alkylated”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom générique des groupes monovalents dérivés d'alcanes, obtenus par perte d’un atome d’hydrogène, et de…”.
What does alkyle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealkyl
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
alkylated
verb
- 1
past participle of alkyler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est le résultat d’une alkylation.
noun: 1. Nom générique des groupes monovalents dérivés d'alcanes, obtenus par perte d’un atome d’hydrogène, et de formule générale –CₙH₂ₙ₊₁ lorsqu’ils sont linéaires.
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 alkyle
- alkylée feminine
- alkylés masculine plural
- alkylées feminine plural
- alkyles plural
- alcoyle obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to alkyle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alkyle in French?
alkyle appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).