folate

Questions about folate

What does folate mean?

folate means "a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction".

How many syllables are in folate?

folate has 2 syllables and divides as fo-late under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for folate?

Close synonyms include vitamin Bc, vitamin M, folic acid, folacin, pteroylglutamic acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is folate a common word?

folate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.