heterocycle

Other forms of heterocycle

plural

heterocycles·

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 heterocycle

What does heterocycle mean?

heterocycle means "a compound containing a heterocyclic ring". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heterocycle?

heterocycle has 5 syllables: he-te-ro-cy-cle. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for heterocycle?

Close synonyms include heterocyclic compound, heterocyclic, heterocyclic ring. 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 heterocycle a common word?

heterocycle 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.