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triflate

noun

triflate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-F-L-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of triflate is triflates.

What does triflate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid

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

Forms of triflate

  • triflates plural

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

How common is triflate?

Triflate appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).