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azeotrope

noun, verb

azeotrope is spelled A-Z-E-O-T-R-O-P-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, azeotrope means “A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of azeotrope is azeotropes.

How many letters and syllables are in azeotrope?

Letters9: A-Z-E-O-T-R-O-P-E
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd 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 azeotrope?

Azeotrope appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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 azeotrope

  • azeotropes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • azeotroping participle, present
  • azeotroped participle, past

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

What does azeotrope mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.

verb

  1. 1

    To create a mixture of this kind.

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

Azeotrope in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense mixture of two substances non-separable by normal distillation:

LanguageWords
Frenchazéotrope
Portugueseazeótropo
Spanishazeótropo

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 azeotrope come from?

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “no”) + ζέω (zéō, “to boil”) + τρόπος (trópos, “state”).

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

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