chélateur
French, noun/ke.la.tœʁ/
chélateur is spelled C-H-É-L-A-T-E-U-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chélateur is a French masculine noun meaning “chelator, chelating agent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agent chélateur”.
What does chélateur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
chelating
noun
- 1
masculinechelator, chelating agent
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui peut, en s’associant à des cations métalliques, former un complexe, le chélate.
noun: 1. Agent chélateur.
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 chélateur
- chélateuse feminine
- chélateurs masculine plural
- chélateuses feminine plural
- chélatrice singular feminine
- chélatrices plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chélateur?
- /ke.la.tœʁ/
- \ke.la.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chélateur in French?
chélateur appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).