alkane

Other forms of alkane

plural

alkanes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alkane

What does alkane mean?

alkane means "a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)".

How many syllables are in alkane?

alkane has 2 syllables and divides as al-kane under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for alkane?

Close synonyms include methane series, alkane series, paraffin series, paraffin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alkane a common word?

alkane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.