tetraethylammonium
/ˌtɛ.tɹəˌɛθ.əl.əˈmoʊ.ni.əm/noun
tetraethylammonium is a noun meaning “A quaternary ammonium ion (C₂H₅)₄N⁺ containing four ethyl groups” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-E-T-H-Y-L-A-M-M-O-N-I-U-M and has 8 syllables, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tetraethylammonium is tetraethylammoniums.
What does tetraethylammonium mean?
noun
- 1
A quaternary ammonium ion (C₂H₅)₄N⁺ containing four ethyl groups.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tetraethylammonium?
- US /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌɛθ.əl.əˈmoʊ.ni.əm/
Tetraethylammonium has 8 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tetraethylammonium
- tetraethylammoniums plural
- tetrylammonium
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetraethylammonium?
Tetraethylammonium appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 tetraethylammonium come from?
From tetra- (“four”) + ethyl + ammonium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).