butene

Questions about butene

What does butene mean?

butene means "any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers".

How many syllables are in butene?

butene has 2 syllables and divides as bu-tene 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 butene?

Close synonyms include butylene. 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 butene a common word?

butene 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.