valproate
/ˈvæl.pɹoʊ.eɪt/noun
valproate is spelled V-A-L-P-R-O-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is valporate: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Valproate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of valproic acid”. The plural of valproate is valproates.
How do you spell valproate?
Valproate is spelled V-A-L-P-R-O-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for valproate in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does valproate mean?
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of valproic acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce valproate?
- UK /ˈvæl.pɹəʊ.eɪt/
- US /ˈvæl.pɹoʊ.eɪt/
Valproate 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 valproate
- valproates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is valproate?
Valproate appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 valproate come from?
From valproic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).