ferrosilicon
noun
ferrosilicon is a noun meaning “An alloy of iron and silicon used in steelmaking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-R-O-S-I-L-I-C-O-N, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ferrosilicon is ferrosilicons.
What does ferrosilicon mean?
noun
- 1
An alloy of iron and silicon used in steelmaking.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ferrosilicon
- ferrosilicons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ferrosilicon?
Ferrosilicon appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 ferrosilicon come from?
From ferro- + silicon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).