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phtalate

French, noun\fta.lat\

phtalate is spelled P-H-T-A-L-A-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phtalate is a French masculine noun meaning “phthalate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “C’est le seul phtalate encore autorisé en cosmétique. – (Maëva Blanchard, Pharmaconseils pour mon bébé, 2023)”.

What does phtalate mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinephthalate

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. C’est le seul phtalate encore autorisé en cosmétique. – (Maëva Blanchard, Pharmaconseils pour mon bébé, 2023) 2. Composés chimiques dérivés (sels ou esters) de l’acide phtalique ; c'est à dire qu’ils sont constitués d’un noyau benzénique et de deux groupements ester placés en ortho et dont la taille de la chaîne alkyle peut varier.

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 phtalate

  • phtalates plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce phtalate?

  • \fta.lat\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to phtalate

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is phtalate in French?

phtalate appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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