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methoxide

noun

methoxide is spelled M-E-T-H-O-X-I-D-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, methoxide means “The anion CH₃O⁻ derived from methanol by the loss of a proton” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of methoxide is methoxides.

How many letters and syllables are in methoxide?

Letters9: M-E-T-H-O-X-I-D-E
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is methoxide?

Methoxide appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 methoxide

  • methoxides plural

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

What does methoxide mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The anion CH₃O⁻ derived from methanol by the loss of a proton.

  2. 2

    Any salt of this anion.

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

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