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diacétyle

French, noun\dja.se.til\

diacétyle is spelled D-I-A-C-É-T-Y-L-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diacétyle is a French masculine noun meaning “diacetyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cétone de formule brute C₄H₆O₂”.

What does diacétyle mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinediacetyl

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Cétone de formule brute C₄H₆O₂

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 diacétyle

  • diacétyles plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce diacétyle?

  • \dja.se.til\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is diacétyle in French?

diacétyle appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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