phosphating
noun
phosphating is a noun meaning “The application of a protective coating of phosphate to the surface of metals (usually steels); various types exist; the coating is often black or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphating is phosphatings.
What does phosphating mean?
noun
- 1
The application of a protective coating of phosphate to the surface of metals (usually steels); various types exist; the coating is often black or gray.
Near-synonym: blackening
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of phosphating
- phosphatings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphating?
Phosphating 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).
Phosphating in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense application of a coating of phosphate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Phosphatierung |
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 phosphating come from?
From phosphate + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).