barite
"barite" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barite” is uncommon English (frequency #75,640 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,640
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barite · barite · English
barite · rank #75,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,640
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH baronial
Nearest frequency peer: baronial (+2 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “barite”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Balaam
Balaam
24,367 corpus weight
- baling
baling
24,366 corpus weight
- balla
balla
24,365 corpus weight
- barite
barite
24,361 corpus weight
- baronial
baronial
24,359 corpus weight
- BDD
BDD
24,354 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “barite” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barite” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
barite is uncommon English at frequency #75,640 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for barite in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), βαρύτης (barútēs, “weight”). The correct English form is barite, spelled B-A-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), βαρύτης (barútēs, “weight”).
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.