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turbidite

noun

turbidite is spelled T-U-R-B-I-D-I-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, turbidite means “Any sedimentary deposit formed by a turbidity current” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of turbidite is turbidites.

How many letters and syllables are in turbidite?

Letters9: T-U-R-B-I-D-I-T-E
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is turbidite?

Turbidite appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

Forms of turbidite

  • turbidites plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does turbidite mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any sedimentary deposit formed by a turbidity current.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Turbidite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense sedimentary deposit formed by a turbidity current:

LanguageWords
GermanTurbidit

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 turbidite come from?

From turbid + -ite.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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