nitrate

\ni.tʁat\

/\ni.tʁat\/ noun

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The verdict

“nitrate” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,150
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique donné aux sels ou esters dérivés de l’acide nitrique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nitrate · nitrate · French

nitrate · rank #31,150 · 10 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #31,150
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ndiaye

Nearest frequency peer: Ndiaye (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nitrate »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « nitrate » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

nitrate vs nitrates
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for nitrate
PropertyValue
Headwordnitrate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ni.tʁat\
Letters7
Frequency rank#31,150
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nitrate »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.nitratese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Ndiaye » (#31,149), « nour » (#31,151), « numérotation » (#31,152). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « nitrate » est au #31,150. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around nitrate (IPA \ni.tʁat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,150 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom générique donné aux sels ou esters dérivés de l’acide nitrique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for nitrate, with forms such as "intrate", "nirtate", and "nitarte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nitrates", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nitrate, spelled N-I-T-R-A-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom générique donné aux sels ou esters dérivés de l’acide nitrique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how nitrate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Lorsque la bourgeoisie embryonnaire eut à affronter le Pérou et la Bolivie, en 1879, pour décider de la propriété des mines de nitrate (monopole naturel sur l'une des plus grandes richesses de l'époque), elle se heurta pourtant aux États-Unis.
  2. Il a été suggéré par de précédents travaux, qui ont notamment mis en évidence que 4 patients cardiaques sur 5 prenant des médicaments contenants des nitrates souffrent régulièrement de maux de tête.

Synonyms

azotate

This word in other languages

nitrate(English)nitrato(Español)Nitrat(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • intrate
  • nirtate
  • nitarte
  • nitraet
  • nitratte
  • nitrrate
  • nitrtae
  • nittrate
  • nnitrate
  • ntirate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nitrate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

intrate2nirtate2nitarte2nitraet2nitratte1nitrrate1nitrtae2nittrate1
Edit distance from "nitrate"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nitrate"?
"nitrate" is spelled N-I-T-R-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ni.tʁat\.
What does "nitrate" mean?
As a noun, "nitrate" means: Nom générique donné aux sels ou esters dérivés de l’acide nitrique.
What words are commonly confused with "nitrate"?
"nitrate" is commonly confused with "nitrates". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nitrate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nitrate" is \ni.tʁat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nitrate" come from?
"nitrate" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nitrate", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

opaques#31,159Monfils#31,140ouvrons#31,162mangeur#31,131

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

occulter10 variantspastore10 variantsMaillard10 variantsloufoque10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list