kyanite
noun
kyanite is a noun meaning “A blue neosilicate mineral, Al₂SiO₅, found in metamorphic rocks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-Y-A-N-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kyanite is kyanites.
What does kyanite mean?
noun
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A blue neosilicate mineral, Al₂SiO₅, found in metamorphic rocks.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kyanite
- kyanites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kyanite?
Kyanite appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 abbreviate kyanite?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of kyanite: Ky.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Kyanite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense blue neosilicate mineral:
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 kyanite come from?
Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue”) + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).