chalcogenide
noun
chalcogenide is a noun meaning “Any binary compound of a chalcogen with a more electropositive element” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-L-C-O-G-E-N-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chalcogenide is chalcogenides.
What does chalcogenide mean?
noun
- 1
Any binary compound of a chalcogen with a more electropositive element.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chalcogenide
- chalcogenides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chalcogenide?
Chalcogenide appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Where does chalcogenide come from?
From chalcogen + -ide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).