carbonate

Other forms of carbonate

plural

carbonates·

past tense

carbonated·

present participle

carbonating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carbonate

What does carbonate mean?

carbonate means "turn into a carbonate". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carbonate?

carbonate has 3 syllables: car-bo-nate. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹbəˌneɪt/.

Is carbonate a common word?

carbonate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with carbonate?

52 words rhyme with carbonate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.