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keytone

keytone is the misspelling of ketone.

Meaning of ketone

Noun

ketone (plural ketones)

  1. A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.
    • acetone R₁ = R₂ = CH₃

Origin of keytone

Misinterpretation of ketone as "key tone."

Questions about keytone

What is keytone the misspelling of?
Keytone is the misspelling of ketone.

Words near keytone in the dictionary

  1. keytars
  2. Keyte
  3. Keytesville
  4. keythong
  5. keythongs
  6. keytone
  7. keytones
  8. keytop
  9. keytops
  10. keyway
  11. keyways

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: keytone (page history and authors); ketone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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