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urate

/ˈjʊəɹeɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English

Syllables
urate
IPA
/ˈjʊəɹeɪt/
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any salt of uric acid.

noun

A solid powdered agricultural manure prepared by composting human urine by mixing it with various other ingredients (e.g., ground gypsum, lime, ashes) and then aging and drying the result.

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

From uric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

urates (plural)

Derived Forms

biurate quadriurate uratic uratolytic uratosis uraturia

Frequently Paired Words

poudrette

Questions

How do you pronounce urate?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈjʊəɹeɪt/.
What does urate mean?
Any salt of uric acid.
Where does urate come from?
From uric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

How to pronounce urate

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