oxychloride
noun
oxychloride is a noun meaning “A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-X-Y-C-H-L-O-R-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oxychloride is oxychlorides.
What does oxychloride mean?
noun
- 1
A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oxychloride
- oxychlorides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oxychloride?
Oxychloride appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Oxychloride in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense compound of oxygen and chlorine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | oxychlorure |
| German | oxychlorid |
| Portuguese | oxicloreto |
| Spanish | oxicloruro |
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 oxychloride come from?
From oxy- + chloride.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).