fosfato
Spanish, noun
fosfato is spelled F-O-S-F-A-T-O (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 33,004th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fosfato is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “phosphate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar. With an accent, fosfató is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of fosfatar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sal o ester del ácido fosfórico. Tienen en común un átomo de fósforo rodeado por cuatro átomos de oxígeno en…”.
What does fosfato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephosphate
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of fosfatar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sal o ester del ácido fosfórico. Tienen en común un átomo de fósforo rodeado por cuatro átomos de oxígeno en forma tetraédrica.
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 fosfato
- fosfatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fosfato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fosfato in Spanish?
fosfato appears 1.1 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).