ciclano
Portuguese, noun
ciclano is spelled C-I-C-L-A-N-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 114,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ciclano is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cycloalkane” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “hidrocarboneto cuja cadeia carbônica é cíclica e apresenta apenas ligações simples”.
What does ciclano mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecycloalkane
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. hidrocarboneto cuja cadeia carbônica é cíclica e apresenta apenas ligações simples
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ciclano
- ciclanos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ciclano in Portuguese?
ciclano appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).