rhyolite
/ˈɹaɪ.əˌlaɪt/
"rhyolite" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rhyolite” is uncommon English (frequency #79,918 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,918
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rhyolite · rhyolite · English
rhyolite · rank #79,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,918
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ricker
Nearest frequency peer: ricker (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “rhyolite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rega
Rega
20,088 corpus weight
- rhyolite
rhyolite
20,083 corpus weight
- ricker
ricker
20,082 corpus weight
- Riza
Riza
20,079 corpus weight
- roon
roon
20,076 corpus weight
- Rosner
Rosner
20,075 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rhyolite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhyolite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹaɪ.əˌlaɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rhyolite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rhyolite is uncommon English at frequency #79,918 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹaɪ.əˌlaɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rhyolite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen as German Rhyolith, from Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”) (modified to + -lite). The correct English form is rhyolite, spelled R-H-Y-O-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1An igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
Etymology
Coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen as German Rhyolith, from Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”) (modified to + -lite).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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