anorthite
noun
anorthite is a noun meaning “A variety of plagioclase feldspar, the calcium endmember of that series” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-R-T-H-I-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anorthite is anorthites.
What does anorthite mean?
noun
- 1
A variety of plagioclase feldspar, the calcium endmember of that series.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anorthite?
Anorthite has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anorthite
- anorthites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anorthite?
Anorthite appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
Anorthite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mineral:
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Where does anorthite come from?
From Ancient Greek αν- (an-, “not”) + ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) "not perpendicular; less than straight", in reference to its odd.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).