chloric
adjective
chloric is an adjective meaning “Of a compound, containing chlorine with a higher oxidation number than equivalent chlorous compounds; especially having an oxidation number of 5” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-I-C and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chloric mean?
adjective
- 1
Of a compound, containing chlorine with a higher oxidation number than equivalent chlorous compounds; especially having an oxidation number of 5.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chloric?
- US
Chloric has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-chloric.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is chloric?
Chloric appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).
Chloric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense compounds:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | clorídrico |
| Spanish | clórico |
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 chloric come from?
From chlor- + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).