chlorate
"chlorate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chlorate” is uncommon English (frequency #89,225 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,225
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt of chloric acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chlorate · chlorate · English
chlorate · rank #89,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,225
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chillingly
Nearest frequency peer: chillingly (-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 “chlorate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- charring
charring
10,780 corpus weight
- childline
childline
10,778 corpus weight
- chillingly
chillingly
10,777 corpus weight
- chlorate
chlorate
10,776 corpus weight
- chondroitin
chondroitin
10,775 corpus weight
- chorionic
chorionic
10,774 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chlorate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chlorate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chlorate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chlorate is uncommon English at frequency #89,225 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt of chloric acid.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chlorate, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From chloric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). The correct English form is chlorate, spelled C-H-L-O-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt of chloric acid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chlorate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents.
The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
Etymology
From chloric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
This word in other languages
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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