vulcanite
noun
vulcanite is a noun meaning “A hardened rubber made by vulcanization of latex with sulfur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-U-L-C-A-N-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vulcanite is vulcanites.
What does vulcanite mean?
noun
- 1
A hardened rubber made by vulcanization of latex with sulfur.
- 2
A rare mineral, copper telluride.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vulcanite
- vulcanites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vulcanite?
Vulcanite appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Vulcanite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense copper telluride:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Vulkanit |
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.