endosulfan
/ˌɛn.dəʊˈsʌl.fən/noun
endosulfan is a noun meaning “A toxic chlorinated polycyclic insecticide used to control mites” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-D-O-S-U-L-F-A-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of endosulfan is endosulfans.
What does endosulfan mean?
noun
- 1
A toxic chlorinated polycyclic insecticide used to control mites.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce endosulfan?
- UK /ˌɛn.dəʊˈsʌl.fən/
Endosulfan 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 endosulfan
- endosulfans plural
- endosulphan UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is endosulfan?
Endosulfan appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 endosulfan come from?
From endo- + sulfa- + -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).