éthylène glycol
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15 characters
Language
French
word origin
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éthylène glycol is aFrenchnoun. It means: Composé organique liquide, incolore et toxique de formule brute C₂H₆O₂, utilisé comme dégivrant et comme antigel ; c’est le plus simple des glycols. Pronounced \e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éthylène glycol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for éthylène glycol is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for éthylène glycol in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is éthylène glycol, spelled É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E- -G-L-Y-C-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Composé organique liquide, incolore et toxique de formule brute C₂H₆O₂, utilisé comme dégivrant et comme antigel ; c’est le plus simple des glycols.
- 2La molécule au sens 1, ou un de ses polymères, surtout un de ses oligomères, aussi un mélange de ces substances, voire une formulation basée sur celles-ci.
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