rodenticide
noun
rodenticide is a noun meaning “Any toxic substance used to kill rodent pests” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-D-E-N-T-I-C-I-D-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rodenticide is rodenticides.
What does rodenticide mean?
noun
- 1
Any toxic substance used to kill rodent pests.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rodenticide?
- US
Rodenticide has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-rodenticide.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rodenticide
- rodenticides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rodenticide?
Rodenticide appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Rodenticide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense toxic substance used to kill rodents:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | rodenticida |
| Spanish | rodenticida |
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 rodenticide come from?
From rodent + -i- + -cide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).