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hydrocolloid

/ˌhaɪdɹoʊˈkɒlɔɪd/noun

hydrocolloid is a noun meaning “Any material that forms a colloid (especially a gel) when mixed with water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-C-O-L-L-O-I-D, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrocolloid is hydrocolloids.

What does hydrocolloid mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any material that forms a colloid (especially a gel) when mixed with water.

    Holonyms: hydrosol, colloid

  2. 2

    Any of a broad subclass of such materials that are of biologic origin or importance, most being biopolymers such as polysaccharides or proteins.

  3. 3

    Such a material, made from agar, used to make dental impressions.

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

How do you pronounce hydrocolloid?

  • US /ˌhaɪdɹoʊˈkɒlɔɪd/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hydrocolloid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of hydrocolloid

  • hydrocolloids plural

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

How common is hydrocolloid?

Hydrocolloid appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).

Hydrocolloid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense material:

LanguageWords
Frenchhydrocolloïde
GermanHydrokolloide
Spanishhidrocoloide

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 hydrocolloid come from?

From hydro- + colloid.

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