oxazaphosphorine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any saturated six-membered heterocycle containing three carbon atoms and one each of oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus, especially one in which the phosphorus atom is linked to both the nitrogen and oxygen atoms
Etymology
From oxaza- + phosphorine.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: oxaza