cyanate
noun, verb
cyanate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of cyanic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyanate is cyanates.
What does cyanate mean?
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of cyanic acid.
verb
- 1
To treat or react with cyanide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cyanate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cyanate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cyanate
- cyanates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cyanating participle, present
- cyanated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyanate?
Cyanate appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Cyanate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense salt or ester of cyanic acid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | cianato |
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 cyanate come from?
From cyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).