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epidote

/ˈɛp.ɪˌdoʊt/noun

epidote is spelled E-P-I-D-O-T-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, epidote means “Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of epidote is epidotes.

How many letters and syllables are in epidote?

Letters7: E-P-I-D-O-T-E
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 165,739th 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 epidote?

Epidote appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 epidote?

  • /ˈɛp.ɪˌdoʊt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-epidote.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of epidote

  • epidotes plural

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

What does epidote mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.

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

Epidote in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense class of mixed minerals:

LanguageWords
Frenchépidote
GermanEpidot
Spanishepidota

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 epidote come from?

Borrowed from French épidote.

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

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