apophyllite
noun
apophyllite is a noun meaning “Any of several forms of a pale pink or green mineral being a mixed fluoride and silicate of potassium and calcium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-O-P-H-Y-L-L-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of apophyllite is apophyllites.
What does apophyllite mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several forms of a pale pink or green mineral being a mixed fluoride and silicate of potassium and calcium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of apophyllite
- apophyllites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is apophyllite?
Apophyllite appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Apophyllite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mineral:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | apofilita |
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.