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chemometrics

noun

chemometrics is a noun meaning “The use of mathematical statistics in the design of experiments, and the evaluation of the resulting data” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-M-E-T-R-I-C-S, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does chemometrics mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The use of mathematical statistics in the design of experiments, and the evaluation of the resulting data.

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

How common is chemometrics?

Chemometrics appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Chemometrics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense use of mathematical statistics in the design of experiments:

LanguageWords
GermanChemometrik

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 chemometrics come from?

From chemo- + metrics.

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