butyl

1. 1.

   a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)

   Broadergroup

Other forms of butyl

plural

butyls·

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 butyl

What does butyl mean?

butyl means "a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)".

How many syllables are in butyl?

butyl has 2 syllables: bu-tyl. The stress falls on "bu". In IPA it is /ˈbjutəl/.

Is butyl a common word?

butyl 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.