scheelite
noun
scheelite is a noun meaning “A mineral composed of calcium tungstate, with the chemical formula CaWO₄; one of the principal ores for tungsten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-E-E-L-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of scheelite is scheelites.
What does scheelite mean?
noun
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A mineral composed of calcium tungstate, with the chemical formula CaWO₄; one of the principal ores for tungsten.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of scheelite
- scheelites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is scheelite?
Scheelite appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Scheelite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mineral:
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Where does scheelite come from?
Scheele + -ite. Named after Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).