orthophosphate

Questions about orthophosphate

What does orthophosphate mean?

orthophosphate means "a salt of phosphoric acid".

How many syllables are in orthophosphate?

orthophosphate has 4 syllables and divides as or-tho-pho-sphate 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 orthophosphate?

Close synonyms include phosphate, inorganic phosphate. 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 orthophosphate a common word?

orthophosphate 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.