pelletierin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Etymology
By the same process of eponymy as explained at pelletierine except for the -in/-ine difference (which recurs in chemical nomenclature); the French word was borrowed into English, German, and others immediately after its coinage, in a manner typical of international scientific vocabulary.