Silikat
[ziliˈkaːt]
The verdict
“Silikat” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Salz oder Ester der ortho-Kieselsäure bzw. deren Kondensate
Corpus desk
Index DE-silikat · Silikat · German
Silikat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Silikat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ziliˈkaːt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Silikat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Silikat is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ziliˈkaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Salz oder Ester der ortho-Kieselsäure bzw. deren Kondensate".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Silikat, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Silikat, spelled S-I-L-I-K-A-T.
Definition
- 1ein Salz oder Ester der ortho-Kieselsäure bzw. deren Kondensate
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Silikat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wasserlösliches Silikat wird als Wasserglas bezeichnet.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.