fosfato
Portuguese, noun/fosˈfa.tu/
fosfato is spelled F-O-S-F-A-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,608th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fosfato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “phosphate (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “íon poliatômico ou um radical consistindo de um átomo de fósforo e quatro de oxigênio”.
What does fosfato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephosphate (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. íon poliatômico ou um radical consistindo de um átomo de fósforo e quatro de oxigênio
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fosfato
- fosfatos plural
- phosphato alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fosfato?
- Brazil /fosˈfa.tu/
- /foʃˈfa.tu/
- Portugal /fuʃˈfa.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fosfato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fosfato in Portuguese?
fosfato appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).