agrochemical
noun, adjective
agrochemical is a noun meaning “A chemical compound, such as a hormone, fungicide, or insecticide, that improves the production of crops” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-R-O-C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of agrochemical is agrochemicals.
What does agrochemical mean?
noun
- 1
A chemical compound, such as a hormone, fungicide, or insecticide, that improves the production of crops.
- 2
A compound or product derived from farmed plants.
adjective
- 1
Relating to agrochemistry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce agrochemical?
- US
Agrochemical has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-agrochemical.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of agrochemical
- agrochemicals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is agrochemical?
Agrochemical appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).
Agrochemical in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to agrochemistry:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agrochimique |
| Portuguese | agroquímico |
| Spanish | agroquímico |
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.