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furoate

noun

furoate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of furoic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-O-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furoate is furoates.

What does furoate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of furoic acid.

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

Forms of furoate

  • furoates plural

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

How common is furoate?

Furoate appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 furoate come from?

From furoic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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