allanite
noun
allanite is a noun meaning “Any of a group of silicate minerals that are a source of rare earth metals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-L-A-N-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of allanite is allanites.
What does allanite mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a group of silicate minerals that are a source of rare earth metals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of allanite
- allanites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is allanite?
Allanite appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Allanite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of a group of silicate minerals that are a source of rare earth metals:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does allanite come from?
From Thomas Allan + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).