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oxoglutarate

noun

oxoglutarate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of oxoglutaric acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-X-O-G-L-U-T-A-R-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oxoglutarate is oxoglutarates.

What does oxoglutarate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of oxoglutaric acid.

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

Forms of oxoglutarate

  • oxoglutarates plural

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

How common is oxoglutarate?

Oxoglutarate appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).

Where does oxoglutarate come from?

From oxoglutaric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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