fluoridate
verb
fluoridate is a verb meaning “To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-I-D-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fluoridate mean?
verb
- 1
To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluoridate
- fluoridates present, singular, he/she/it
- fluoridating participle, present
- fluoridated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluoridate?
Fluoridate appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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 fluoridate come from?
Back-formation from fluoridation, equivalent to fluoride + -ate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).