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tetranitrate

noun

tetranitrate is a noun meaning “Any compound containing four nitrate groups” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-N-I-T-R-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tetranitrate is tetranitrates.

What does tetranitrate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any compound containing four nitrate groups

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

Forms of tetranitrate

  • tetranitrates plural

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

How common is tetranitrate?

Tetranitrate appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 tetranitrate come from?

From tetra- + nitrate.

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