sulfonate
noun, verb
sulfonate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of a sulfonic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-L-F-O-N-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sulfonate is sulfonates.
What does sulfonate mean?
noun
- 1
USAny salt or ester of a sulfonic acid.
verb
- 1
To treat or react with a sulfonic acid, or to introduce such a group into a compound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sulfonate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-sulfonate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sulfonate
- sulfonates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sulphonate
- sulfonating participle, present
- sulfonated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sulfonate?
Sulfonate appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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).