carboxyle
French, noun
carboxyle is spelled C-A-R-B-O-X-Y-L-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carboxyle is a French masculine noun meaning “carboxyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of carboxyler. With an accent, carboxylé is a different word: “carboxylated”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Radical de formule générale R-CO-OH”.
What does carboxyle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarboxyl
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
carboxylated
verb
- 1
past participle of carboxyler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Radical de formule générale R-CO-OH.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of carboxyle
- carboxylée feminine
- carboxylés masculine plural
- carboxylées feminine plural
- carboxyles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to carboxyle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carboxyle in French?
carboxyle appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).