methacrylate
noun
methacrylate is spelled M-E-T-H-A-C-R-Y-L-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is metacrylate: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 30 of all searches for the word. Methacrylate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of methacrylic acid, especially an ester used in the manufacture of resins and plastics”. The plural of methacrylate is methacrylates.
How many letters and syllables are in methacrylate?
| Letters | 12: M-E-T-H-A-C-R-Y-L-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 78,613th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, metacrylate, about 10 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 methacrylate?
Methacrylate is spelled M-E-T-H-A-C-R-Y-L-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for methacrylate 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 methacrylate?
Methacrylate appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th 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).
Forms of methacrylate
- methacrylates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does methacrylate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of methacrylic acid, especially an ester used in the manufacture of resins and plastics.
- 2
A resin manufactured from methacrylic acid or a methacrylate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does methacrylate come from?
From methacrylic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).