ammolite
noun
ammolite is a noun meaning “A rare and valuable opal-like gemstone, made of the fossilized shells of ammonites” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-M-M-O-L-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ammolite is ammolites.
What does ammolite mean?
noun
- 1
A rare and valuable opal-like gemstone, made of the fossilized shells of ammonites.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ammolite
- ammolites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ammolite?
Ammolite appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Ammolite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense gemstone:
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.