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oxaloacetate

/ɑˈksɛ.loʊ.æ.sɪ.teɪt/noun

oxaloacetate is spelled O-X-A-L-O-A-C-E-T-A-T-E: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, oxaloacetate means “Any salt or ester of oxaloacetic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of oxaloacetate is oxaloacetates.

How many letters and syllables are in oxaloacetate?

Letters12: O-X-A-L-O-A-C-E-T-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th 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 oxaloacetate?

Oxaloacetate appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).

How do you pronounce oxaloacetate?

  • /ɑˈksɛ.loʊ.æ.sɪ.teɪt/

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

Forms of oxaloacetate

  • oxaloacetates plural
  • oxalacetate

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

What does oxaloacetate mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of oxaloacetic acid.

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

Where does oxaloacetate come from?

From oxalo- + acetate.

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

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