thiocyanate
noun
thiocyanate is a noun meaning “any salt or ester of thiocyanic acid; or the -SCN radical or the SCN⁻¹ anion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-C-Y-A-N-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiocyanate is thiocyanates.
What does thiocyanate mean?
noun
- 1
any salt or ester of thiocyanic acid; or the -SCN radical or the SCN⁻¹ anion
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thiocyanate?
- 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-thiocyanate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thiocyanate
- thiocyanates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiocyanate?
Thiocyanate appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Thiocyanate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense salt of ester of thiocyanic acid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Thiocyanat |
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 thiocyanate come from?
From thiocyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).