iodate
noun, verb
iodate is a noun meaning “The anion IO₃⁻; any salt of iodic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-O-D-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of iodate is iodates.
What does iodate mean?
noun
- 1
The anion IO₃⁻; any salt of iodic acid.
verb
- 1
To treat with iodine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce iodate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-iodate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of iodate
- iodates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- iodating participle, present
- iodated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is iodate?
Iodate appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Iodate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense anion or salt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | yodato |
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 iodate come from?
From iodic acid + -ate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).