chélation
French, noun/ke.la.sjɔ̃/
chélation is spelled C-H-É-L-A-T-I-O-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chélation is a French feminine noun meaning “chelation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Formation ou présence de liaisons électrostatiques ou autres forces attractives fortes entre un ligand ou ion…”.
What does chélation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininechelation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Formation ou présence de liaisons électrostatiques ou autres forces attractives fortes entre un ligand ou ion chargé et initialement en solution, et un agent portant deux charges ou plus de signe opposé, dit agent de chélation. Le résultat est la formation d’un chélate qui immobilise les ions ainsi captés et abolit leur activité thermodynamique. Ce procédé est utilisé notamment dans le traitement
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 chélation
- chélations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chélation?
- /ke.la.sjɔ̃/
- \ke.la.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chélation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chélation in French?
chélation appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).