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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

superphosphate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables
su-per-phos-phate
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fertilizer produced by the action of concentrated sulfuric acid on powdered phosphate rock.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A phosphate containing the greatest amount of phosphoric acid that can combine with the base.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From super- + phosphate.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

superphosphates (plural)

Questions

What does superphosphate mean?
A fertilizer produced by the action of concentrated sulfuric acid on powdered phosphate rock.
Where does superphosphate come from?
From super- + phosphate.

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