descarboxilación
Spanish, noun/deskaɾboɡsilaˈθjon/
descarboxilación is spelled D-E-S-C-A-R-B-O-X-I-L-A-C-I-Ó-N (16 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written Spanish, the 234,430th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descarboxilación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “decarboxylation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Reacción química en la cual un grupo carboxilo es eliminado de un compuesto en forma de dióxido de carbono”.
What does descarboxilación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedecarboxylation
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Reacción química en la cual un grupo carboxilo es eliminado de un compuesto en forma de dióxido de carbono.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of descarboxilación
- descarboxilaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descarboxilación?
- /deskaɾboɡsilaˈθjon/
- [d̪es.kaɾ.β̞oɣ̞.si.laˈθjõn]
- /deskaɾboɡsilaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descarboxilación in Spanish?
descarboxilación appears about once in every 44 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).