acaricide
/əˈkɛɹ.əˌsid/noun
acaricide is a noun meaning “Any substance which kills acarids (mites and ticks)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-C-A-R-I-C-I-D-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of acaricide is acaricides.
What does acaricide mean?
noun
- 1
Any substance which kills acarids (mites and ticks).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce acaricide?
- US /əˈkɛɹ.əˌsid/
Acaricide has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of acaricide
- acaricides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is acaricide?
Acaricide appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Acaricide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense substance which kills acarids:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | acaricida |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does acaricide come from?
From acarid + -cide (“killer”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).