carboxylique
French, adjective/kaʁ.bɔk.si.lik/
carboxylique is spelled C-A-R-B-O-X-Y-L-I-Q-U-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carboxylique is a French adjective meaning “carboxylic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit des composés chimiques organiques contenant un atome d’oxygène favorisant des propriétés acides. Cet…”.
What does carboxylique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
carboxylic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit des composés chimiques organiques contenant un atome d’oxygène favorisant des propriétés acides. Cet adjectif s’applique principalement aux acides de formule générale R-COOH.
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 carboxylique
- carboxyliques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carboxylique?
- /kaʁ.bɔk.si.lik/
- \kaʁ.bok.si.lik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carboxylique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carboxylique in French?
carboxylique appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).