Home › Words › F › footballenefootballenefootballene means buckminsterfullerene.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, footballene ranks #6,717 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom football + -ene, because the structure resembles a football, or soccer ball.nounbuckminsterfullereneDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.buckyball 74% match — A buckminsterfullerene molecule (C₆₀). vs footballene →buckyonion 69% match — A concentric multishell fullerene structure. vs footballene →buckybowl 66% match — A corannulene vs footballene →clusterfullerene 65% match — A distorted fullerene that is stabilized by an internal cluster of atoms vs footballene →hyperfullerene 64% match — An allotropic form of carbon consisting of one (or more) fullerene molecules inside another vs footballene →fullerane 63% match — Any fully saturated fullerene vs footballene →bunnyball 63% match — An osmylated C₆₀ molecule. vs footballene →buckytube 62% match — a carbon nanotube vs footballene →