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wolframite

noun

wolframite is spelled W-O-L-F-R-A-M-I-T-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wolframite means “A mineral that consists of a tungstate of iron and manganese; (Fe,Mn)WO₄; it is one of the principal ores for tungsten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wolframite is wolframites.

How many letters and syllables are in wolframite?

Letters10: W-O-L-F-R-A-M-I-T-E
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th 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 wolframite?

Wolframite appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

How do you pronounce wolframite?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-wolframite.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-wolframite.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of wolframite

  • wolframites plural

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

What does wolframite mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A mineral that consists of a tungstate of iron and manganese; (Fe,Mn)WO₄; it is one of the principal ores for tungsten.

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

Wolframite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense wolframite:

LanguageWords
Frenchwolframite
GermanWolframit
Portuguesewolframita
Spanishwolframita

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 wolframite come from?

From German Wolframit, from Wolfram (“tungsten”). By surface analysis, wolfram + -ite.

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

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