chélate
French, noun
chélate is spelled C-H-É-L-A-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chélate is a French masculine noun meaning “chelate, chelate compound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, chélaté is a different word: “chelated”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entité moléculaire comportant une chélation ; l'espèce chimique correspondante”.
What does chélate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechelate, chelate compound
adjective
- 1
chelated
verb
- 1
past participle of chélater
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Entité moléculaire comportant une chélation ; l'espèce chimique correspondante.
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 chélate
- chélates plural
- chélatée feminine
- chélatés masculine plural
- chélatées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is chélate in French?
chélate appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).