sulfate

1. 1.

   convert into a sulfate

   Broaderconvert

Other forms of sulfate

plural

sulfates·

past tense

sulfated·

present participle

sulfating·

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 sulfate

What does sulfate mean?

sulfate means "a salt or ester of sulphuric acid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sulfate?

sulfate has 2 syllables: sul-fate. The stress falls on "sul". In IPA it is /ˈsʌlˌfeɪt/.

What is another word for sulfate?

Close synonyms include sulphate. 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 sulfate a common word?

sulfate 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 sulfate?

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