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chondrite

/ˈkɒndɹaɪt/noun

chondrite is spelled C-H-O-N-D-R-I-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chondrite means “A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chondrite is chondrites.

How many letters and syllables are in chondrite?

Letters9: C-H-O-N-D-R-I-T-E
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is chondrite?

Chondrite appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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 chondrite?

  • /ˈkɒndɹaɪt/

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

Forms of chondrite

  • chondrites plural

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

What does chondrite mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules.

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

Chondrite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense meteorite:

LanguageWords
Frenchchondrite
GermanChondrit
Portuguesecondrito
Spanishcondrita

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 chondrite come from?

From Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “grain”) + -ite. By surface analysis, chondr- + -ite.

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

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