methylmalonic acid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dicarboxylic acid, a C-methylated derivative of malonic acid, HOOCCH(CH3)COOH , that is involved in the Krebs cycle
Uncountable
Etymology
From methyl + malonic acid.