rhodonite
noun
rhodonite is a noun meaning “A manganese inosilicate mineral with some substitution by iron and magnesium, of composition (Mn²⁺,Fe,Mg,Ca)SiO₃” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-O-D-O-N-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhodonite is rhodonites.
What does rhodonite mean?
noun
- 1
A manganese inosilicate mineral with some substitution by iron and magnesium, of composition (Mn²⁺,Fe,Mg,Ca)SiO₃.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rhodonite
- rhodonites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhodonite?
Rhodonite 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).
Rhodonite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A manganese inosilicate mineral:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Rhodonit |
| Spanish | rodonita |
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 rhodonite come from?
From Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).