carboxylate
/kɑɹˈbɑksɪleɪ̯t/
"carboxylate" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carboxylate” is uncommon English (frequency #87,117 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,117
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carboxylate · carboxylate · English
carboxylate · rank #87,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,117
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Carrell
Nearest frequency peer: Carrell (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “carboxylate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- calorimetry
calorimetry
12,888 corpus weight
- Cancún
Cancún
12,886 corpus weight
- carboxylate
carboxylate
12,884 corpus weight
- Carrell
Carrell
12,883 corpus weight
- catacomb
catacomb
12,880 corpus weight
- centralism
centralism
12,878 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “carboxylate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carboxylate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɑɹˈbɑksɪleɪ̯t/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carboxylate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carboxylate is uncommon English at frequency #87,117 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɑɹˈbɑksɪleɪ̯t/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid.".
Zero misspellings are on record for carboxylate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From carboxylic acid + -ate. The correct English form is carboxylate, spelled C-A-R-B-O-X-Y-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carboxylate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] substitution of a carboxylate would be expected to destabilize the dritterionic mesomer that contributes to the singlet valence bond description as the benzyne geometry becomes more bicyclic.
Etymology
From carboxylic acid + -ate.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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