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triacetate

noun

triacetate is spelled T-R-I-A-C-E-T-A-T-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, triacetate means “Any compound containing three acetate groups” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of triacetate is triacetates.

How many letters and syllables are in triacetate?

Letters10: T-R-I-A-C-E-T-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is triacetate?

Triacetate appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).

Forms of triacetate

  • triacetates plural

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

What does triacetate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any compound containing three acetate groups

  2. 2

    A fibre manufactured from cellulose triacetate

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

Where does triacetate come from?

From tri- + acetate.

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

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