crystallite
noun
crystallite is a noun meaning “A small region of a solid that consists of a single crystal; a grain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L-L-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of crystallite is crystallites.
What does crystallite mean?
noun
- 1
A small region of a solid that consists of a single crystal; a grain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of crystallite
- crystallites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is crystallite?
Crystallite appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Crystallite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small region of a solid that consists of a single crystal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cristallite |
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 crystallite come from?
From crystal + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).