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phenylketone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phenylke-tone
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any phenyl ketone C₆H₅CO-R

Etymology

phenyl + ketone

Inflected Forms

phenylketones (plural)

Derived Forms

phenylketonuria

Questions

What does phenylketone mean?
Any phenyl ketone C₆H₅CO-R
Where does phenylketone come from?
phenyl + ketone

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