anatase
/ˈænəˌteɪs/noun
anatase is a noun meaning “A blue or brown mineral, a form of titanium dioxide, used as a pigment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-A-T-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anatase is anatases.
What does anatase mean?
noun
- 1
A blue or brown mineral, a form of titanium dioxide, used as a pigment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anatase?
- /ˈænəˌteɪs/
- /ˈænəˌteɪz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anatase
- anatases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anatase?
Anatase appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Anatase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mineral:
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 anatase come from?
From French anatase, from Ancient Greek ἀνάτασις (anátasis, “extending, extension”), named for the length of its crystals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).