sulphate

Other forms of sulphate

plural

sulphates·

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 sulphate

What does sulphate mean?

sulphate means "a salt or ester of sulphuric acid".

How many syllables are in sulphate?

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

What is another word for sulphate?

Close synonyms include sulfate. 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 sulphate a common word?

sulphate 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 sulphate?

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