formiate
\fɔʁ.mjat\
The verdict
“formiate” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sel ou ester produit par la combinaison de l'acide formique avec une base, un alcool ou un phénol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formiate · formiate · French
formiate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formiate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mjat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « formiate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
formiate is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.mjat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sel ou ester produit par la combinaison de l'acide formique avec une base, un alcool ou un phénol.".
No misspelling variants are generated for formiate in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is formiate, spelled F-O-R-M-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sel ou ester produit par la combinaison de l'acide formique avec une base, un alcool ou un phénol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how formiate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son essence à l’odeur douce et pénétrante rappelant celle de la rose, est riche en géraniol, en acétate et formiate de géranyle.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.