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propionate

noun

propionate is spelled P-R-O-P-I-O-N-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is proprionate: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Propionate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of propionic acid”. The plural of propionate is propionates.

How many letters and syllables are in propionate?

Letters10: P-R-O-P-I-O-N-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 79,518th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, proprionate, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell propionate?

Propionate is spelled P-R-O-P-I-O-N-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for propionate in either form.

propionatethe right spelling360 searches a month
proprionatean extra r20 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is propionate?

Propionate appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th 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 propionate

  • propionates plural

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

What does propionate mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of propionic acid.

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

Where does propionate come from?

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

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

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