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austenite

/ˈɔstɪnaɪt/noun

austenite is spelled A-U-S-T-E-N-I-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, austenite means “Synonym of gamma iron” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of austenite is austenites.

How many letters and syllables are in austenite?

Letters9: A-U-S-T-E-N-I-T-E
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is austenite?

Austenite appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).

How do you pronounce austenite?

  • US /ˈɔstɪnaɪt/
  • /ˈɑstɪnaɪt/
  • UK /ˈɒstɪnaɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Words people confuse with austenite

Sounds like: austinite (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with austenite?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as austenite from its last stressed vowel (/ɔstɪnaɪt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of austenite

  • austenites plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does austenite mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of gamma iron.

noun

as Austenite
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of austenite.

  2. 2

    a fan or admirer of Jane Austen; someone who studies the works of Jane Austen.

    [I]t seems a pity that they should not form a volume in one of the neat series of Jane Austen's novels now published, as to a real Austenite they contain much that is valuable, and are full of characteristic touches.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Austenite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchausténite
GermanAustenit
Portugueseaustenite, austenita
Spanishaustenita

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 austenite come from?

After William Roberts-Austen (1843-1902).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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