cacodyl

Other forms of cacodyl

plural

cacodyls·

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 cacodyl

What does cacodyl mean?

cacodyl means "a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cacodyl?

cacodyl has 3 syllables: ca-co-dyl. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for cacodyl?

Close synonyms include tetramethyldiarsine, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, arsenic group. 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 cacodyl a common word?

cacodyl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.