realgar
/ɹiˈæl.ɡɑɹ/noun
realgar is a noun meaning “A mineral, arsenic sulfide (AsS), often associated with orpiment and stibnite in lead, silver and gold ores” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-A-L-G-A-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of realgar is realgars.
What does realgar mean?
noun
- 1
A mineral, arsenic sulfide (AsS), often associated with orpiment and stibnite in lead, silver and gold ores.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce realgar?
- UK /ɹiˈæl.ɡɑː/
- UK /ɹiˈæl.ɡə/
- US /ɹiˈæl.ɡɑɹ/
Realgar has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-realgar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of realgar
- realgars plural
- rosaker
- resalgar
- resegall
- resegallum
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is realgar?
Realgar appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Realgar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mineral:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réalgar |
| German | Realgar, Rubinschwefel, rotes Schwefelarsenik, rote Arsenblende, Rauschrot |
| Spanish | rejalgar |
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 realgar come from?
From Middle English realgar, from Medieval Latin realgar, resalgar, from Arabic رَهْج اَلْغَار (rahj al-ḡār, literally “cave dust”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).