glutaraldehyde
noun
glutaraldehyde is spelled G-L-U-T-A-R-A-L-D-E-H-Y-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is gluteraldehyde: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Glutaraldehyde is a noun meaning “The aliphatic dialdehyde pentane-1,5-dial, a toxic liquid with a pungent odor”.
How many letters and syllables are in glutaraldehyde?
| Letters | 14: G-L-U-T-A-R-A-L-D-E-H-Y-D-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, gluteraldehyde, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell glutaraldehyde?
Glutaraldehyde is spelled G-L-U-T-A-R-A-L-D-E-H-Y-D-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for glutaraldehyde in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is glutaraldehyde?
Glutaraldehyde appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
What does glutaraldehyde mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The aliphatic dialdehyde pentane-1,5-dial, a toxic liquid with a pungent odor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Glutaraldehyde in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pentane-1,5-dial:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Glutaraldehyd |
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 glutaraldehyde come from?
From glutar- + aldehyde; compare glutaric acid, glutaryl, glutarate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).