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desorb

verb

desorb is spelled D-E-S-O-R-B: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, desorb means “To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in desorb?

Letters6: D-E-S-O-R-B
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th 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 desorb?

Desorb 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).

Forms of desorb

  • desorbs present, singular, he/she/it
  • desorbing participle, present
  • desorbed participle, past

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

What does desorb mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed

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

Desorb in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchdésorber

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.

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