zeolite
"zeolite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zeolite” is uncommon English (frequency #77,360 among 2,810 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,360
- frequency rank, English
- 2,810
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure (originally, those which swelled and gave off water when heated); they are used in...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zeolite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zeolite” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zeolite is uncommon English at frequency #77,360 among 2,810 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure (originally, those which swelled and gave off water when heated); they are used in...".
zeolite has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Swedish zeolit, and its source, New Latin zeolites, from Ancient Greek ζέω (zéō, “to boil, bubble”) + -lite. The correct English form is zeolite, spelled Z-E-O-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any of several minerals, aluminosilicates of sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium, that have a porous structure (originally, those which swelled and gave off water when heated); they are used in water softeners, in ion exchange chromatography, and as industrial catalysts.
Etymology
From Swedish zeolit, and its source, New Latin zeolites, from Ancient Greek ζέω (zéō, “to boil, bubble”) + -lite.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “zeolite”
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- The one correct English spelling is Z-E-O-L-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.