hydrosulfide
noun
hydrosulfide is a noun meaning “Any compound formally derived from hydrogen sulfide by replacing one hydrogen atom with a metal or other radical; a thiol or mercaptan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-S-U-L-F-I-D-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrosulfide is hydrosulfides.
What does hydrosulfide mean?
noun
- 1
Any compound formally derived from hydrogen sulfide by replacing one hydrogen atom with a metal or other radical; a thiol or mercaptan.
- 2
The HS⁻ anion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrosulfide?
- US
Hydrosulfide has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hydrosulfide.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hydrosulfide
- hydrosulfides plural
- hydrosulphide
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrosulfide?
Hydrosulfide appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 hydrosulfide come from?
From hydro- + sulfide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).