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cyclamate

noun

cyclamate is spelled C-Y-C-L-A-M-A-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cyclamate means “any salt or ester of cyclamic acid, especially the sodium and calcium salts, which have been used as artificial sweeteners” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cyclamate is cyclamates.

How many letters and syllables are in cyclamate?

Letters9: C-Y-C-L-A-M-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cyclamate?

Cyclamate appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).

Forms of cyclamate

  • cyclamates plural

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

What does cyclamate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    any salt or ester of cyclamic acid, especially the sodium and calcium salts, which have been used as artificial sweeteners

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

Where does cyclamate come from?

From cyclamic + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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

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