fenol
Portuguese, noun/feˈnɔw/
fenol is spelled F-E-N-O-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fenol is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “phenol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “classe de compostos orgânicos caracterizada pela ligação de uma ou mais hidroxilas a um anel aromático…”.
What does fenol mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephenol
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. classe de compostos orgânicos caracterizada pela ligação de uma ou mais hidroxilas a um anel aromático; geralmente os fenóis são sólidos, cristalinos, tóxicos, cáusticos e pouco solúveis em água; são obtidos principalmente através da extração de óleos a partir do alcatrão de hulha ou de madeira; a forma mais simples do fenol é o ácido carbólico cuja fórmula química é C₆H₅OH
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 fenol
- fenóis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fenol?
- Brazil /feˈnɔw/
- Brazil [feˈnɔʊ̯]
- Portugal /fɨˈnɔl/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fenol
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fenol in Portuguese?
fenol appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).