saprolite
noun
saprolite is a noun meaning “a chemically weathered rock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-P-R-O-L-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of saprolite is saprolites.
What does saprolite mean?
noun
- 1
a chemically weathered rock
Saprolites form in the lower zones of soil profiles and represent deep weathering of the bedrock surface.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of saprolite
- saprolites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is saprolite?
Saprolite appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Saprolite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a chemically weathered rock:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | saprolito |
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 saprolite come from?
From sapro- + -lite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).