clavulanate
/ˈklæv.jəl.əˌneɪt/noun
clavulanate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of clavulanic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-L-A-V-U-L-A-N-A-T-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of clavulanate is clavulanates.
What does clavulanate mean?
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of clavulanic acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce clavulanate?
- US /ˈklæv.jəl.əˌneɪt/
Clavulanate has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of clavulanate
- clavulanates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is clavulanate?
Clavulanate appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 clavulanate come from?
From clavulanic acid + -ate (“salt, ester”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).