thiosulfate
/θaɪ.oʊˈsʌlfeɪt/noun
thiosulfate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-S-U-L-F-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiosulfate is thiosulfates.
What does thiosulfate mean?
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thiosulfate?
- /θaɪ.oʊˈsʌlfeɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-thiosulfate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thiosulfate
- thiosulfates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiosulfate?
Thiosulfate appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).
Thiosulfate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | thiosulfate |
| German | Thiosulfat |
| Spanish | tiosulfato |
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 thiosulfate come from?
From thio- + sulfate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).