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electrodeposition

noun

electrodeposition is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-D-E-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N: 17 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, electrodeposition means “The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of electrodeposition is electrodepositions.

How many letters and syllables are in electrodeposition?

Letters17: E-L-E-C-T-R-O-D-E-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st 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 electrodeposition?

Electrodeposition appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 electrodeposition

  • electrodepositions plural

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

What does electrodeposition mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.

    Near-synonym: electroplating

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

Electrodeposition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis:

LanguageWords
Frenchélectrodéposition

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 electrodeposition come from?

From electro- + deposition.

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

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