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alkoxide

noun

alkoxide is spelled A-L-K-O-X-I-D-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alkoxide means “Any organic compound derived from an alcohol by replacement of a hydrogen atom with a metal or other cationic species” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of alkoxide is alkoxides.

How many letters and syllables are in alkoxide?

Letters8: A-L-K-O-X-I-D-E
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is alkoxide?

Alkoxide appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Forms of alkoxide

  • alkoxides plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does alkoxide mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any organic compound derived from an alcohol by replacement of a hydrogen atom with a metal or other cationic species

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Alkoxide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense alcohol-derived compound formed by replacing a hydrogen atom with another cation:

LanguageWords
GermanAlkoholat
Portuguesealcóxido
Spanishalcóxido

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.

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