méthylène
French, noun/me.ti.lɛn/
méthylène is spelled M-É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 81,899th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Méthylène is a French masculine noun meaning “methylene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Groupe fonctionnel divalent : – CH₂ –”.
What does méthylène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemethylene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Groupe fonctionnel divalent : – CH₂ –. 2. Groupe fonctionnel divalent = CH₂. 3. Carbène :CH₂ (métastable). 4. Méthanol, alcool méthylique (CH₃OH).
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 méthylène
- méthylènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méthylène?
- /me.ti.lɛn/
- \me.ti.lɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to méthylène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is méthylène in French?
méthylène appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).