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xanthate

UK /ˈzænθeɪt/noun

xanthate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of xanthic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-A-N-T-H-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of xanthate is xanthates.

What does xanthate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any salt or ester of xanthic acid.

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

How do you pronounce xanthate?

  • UK /ˈzænθeɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-xanthate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of xanthate

  • xanthates plural

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

How common is xanthate?

Xanthate appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 xanthate come from?

From xanth- + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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