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stearate

/ˈstɪəɹeɪt/noun

stearate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of stearic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-A-R-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stearate is stearates.

What does stearate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of stearic acid.

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

How do you pronounce stearate?

  • /ˈstɪəɹeɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stearate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stearate

  • stearates plural

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

How common is stearate?

Stearate appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 stearate come from?

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

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