éthylène glycol

/\e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\/ noun

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Language

French

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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\.

Key facts for éthylène glycol
PropertyValue
Headwordéthylène glycol
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

éthylène glycol is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Composé organique liquide, incolore et toxique de formule brute C₂H₆O₂, utilisé comme dégivrant et comme antigel ; c’est le plus simple des glycols.
  2. 2
    La 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "éthylène glycol"?
"éthylène glycol" is spelled É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E- -G-L-Y-C-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\.
What does "éthylène glycol" mean?
As a noun, "éthylène glycol" means: Composé organique liquide, incolore et toxique de formule brute C₂H₆O₂, utilisé comme dégivrant et comme antigel ; c’est le plus simple des glycols.
How do you pronounce "éthylène glycol"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "éthylène glycol" is \e.ti.lɛn ɡli.kɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "éthylène glycol" come from?
"éthylène glycol" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.