witherite
noun
witherite is a noun meaning “A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO₃” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-I-T-H-E-R-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of witherite is witherites.
What does witherite mean?
noun
- 1
A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO₃
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of witherite
- witherites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is witherite?
Witherite appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Witherite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mineral:
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 witherite come from?
After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).