ferroalloy
noun
ferroalloy is a noun meaning “Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-R-O-A-L-L-O-Y, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ferroalloy is ferroalloys.
What does ferroalloy mean?
noun
- 1
Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the production of specialist steels as they have a lower melting point than the pure metal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ferroalloy
- ferroalloys plural
- ferro-alloy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ferroalloy?
Ferroalloy appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).
Where does ferroalloy come from?
From ferro- + alloy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).