iodoform
noun
iodoform is a noun meaning “A halogenated hydrocarbon, CHI₃; a yellow crystalline compound, formerly used as a mild antiseptic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-O-D-O-F-O-R-M, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of iodoform is iodoforms.
What does iodoform mean?
noun
- 1
A halogenated hydrocarbon, CHI₃; a yellow crystalline compound, formerly used as a mild antiseptic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce iodoform?
- 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-iodoform.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of iodoform
- iodoforms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is iodoform?
Iodoform appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Iodoform in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemistry: a halogenated hydrocarbon, CHI3:
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 iodoform come from?
From iodo- + -form.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).