zeolite
"zeolite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zeolite” is uncommon English (frequency #77,360 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,360
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index EN-zeolite · zeolite · English
zeolite · rank #77,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,360
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH zep
Nearest frequency peer: zep (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “zeolite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wooley
Wooley
22,652 corpus weight
- Yayoi
Yayoi
22,647 corpus weight
- Yukiko
Yukiko
22,644 corpus weight
- Yulin
Yulin
22,643 corpus weight
- zeolite
zeolite
22,641 corpus weight
- zep
zep
22,640 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “zeolite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “zeolite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
zeolite is uncommon English at frequency #77,360 among 265 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zeolite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What I liked best were the zeolites from the stacks which rise out of the sea off the coast near Jaci.
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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