thiourea
/θaɪoʊjʊˈɹi.ə/noun
thiourea is a noun meaning “Any of a class of compounds based on NH₂-CS-NH₂, formally derived from urea by replacing the oxygen atom with sulfur, used in photography as a fixing…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-U-R-E-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiourea is thioureas.
What does thiourea mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of compounds based on NH₂-CS-NH₂, formally derived from urea by replacing the oxygen atom with sulfur, used in photography as a fixing agent, in inorganic synthesis, and in medicine as an antithyroid drug.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thiourea?
- US /θaɪoʊjʊˈɹi.ə/
- US /-ˈjʊəɹi.ə/
Thiourea has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thiourea
- thioureas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiourea?
Thiourea appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 thiourea come from?
From New Latin, 1890–95, thio- + urea.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).