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Definition: Thiocyanate |
ThiocyanateNoun1. A salt of thiocyanic acid; formed when alkaline cyanides are fused with sulfur. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Thiocyanate |
| English words defined with "thiocyanate": Sulphocyanate ♦ thiocyanic acid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thiocyanate": Thiosulfate Sulfurtransferase. (references) |
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| "Thiocyanate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Thiocyanate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sodium thiocyanate | 5 |
erythromycin thiocyanate | 3 |
thiocyanate | 3 |
potassium thiocyanate | 3 |
diagram thiocyanate | 2 |
complex ion thiocyanate | 2 |
guanidine thiocyanate | 2 |
ammonium thiocyanate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "thiocyanate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 硫氰酸. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | sulfocyanid (sulphocyanide), sulfocyanat (sulphocyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | thiocyanaat (sulphocyanide), sulfocyanaat (sulphocyanide), rodanide (sulphocyanide), rhodanide (sulphocyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | thiocyanate, sulfocyanure, sulfocyanate. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Thiocyanat (sulphocyanide), Sulfocyanid (sulphocyanide), Rhodanid (sulphocyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | σουλφοκυανικό (sulphocyanide), σουλφοκυανιούχο (sulphocyanide), θειοκυανικό (sulphocyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | tiocianato (sulphocyanide), solfocianuro (sulphocyanide), solfocianato (sulphocyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iocyanatethay tiocianato (sulphocyanide), sulfocianuro (sulphocyanide), sulfocianato (sulphocyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thiocyanate": thiocyanates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-n-o-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: chatoyant. | |
-3 letters: inchoate, taconite, tenacity, thionate. | |
-4 letters: acanthi, achiote, aconite, attache, chantey, chayote, choanae, cyanate, cyanite, etchant, hyaenic, nictate, tachyon, taction, tetanic, tonetic. | |
-5 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, anatto, atonic, attach, attain, canthi, catena, cation, cattie, centai, chaeta, chaine, chanty, chatty, chiton, chitty, choana, cottae, enatic, entity, ethion, ethnic, hyaena, hyenic, intact, nicety, noetic, notate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-n-o-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: thiocyanates. | |
+4 letters: cyanoethylating, cyanoethylation. | |
+5 letters: cyanoethylations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 69 6F 63 79 61 6E 61 74 65 |
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