ferrocyanide
noun
ferrocyanide is a noun meaning “The complex ion Fe(CN)₆⁴⁻; any salt containing this ion; they are used in making blue pigments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-R-O-C-Y-A-N-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ferrocyanide is ferrocyanides.
What does ferrocyanide mean?
noun
- 1
The complex ion Fe(CN)₆⁴⁻; any salt containing this ion; they are used in making blue pigments
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ferrocyanide
- ferrocyanides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ferrocyanide?
Ferrocyanide appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 ferrocyanide come from?
From ferro- + cyanide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).