benzoate
/ˈbɛn.zoʊˌeɪt/noun
benzoate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of benzoic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-Z-O-A-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benzoate is benzoates.
What does benzoate mean?
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of benzoic acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce benzoate?
- UK /ˈbɛn.zəʊ.eɪt/
- US /ˈbɛn.zoʊˌeɪt/
Benzoate has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-benzoate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of benzoate
- benzoates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is benzoate?
Benzoate appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).
Benzoate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense salt or ester of benzoic acid:
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.