apatite
\a.pa.tit\
The verdict
“apatite” is uncommon French (frequency #71,246 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,246
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique désignant des phosphates de calcium hexagonaux de composition assez variable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apatite · apatite · French
apatite · rank #71,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,246
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antinomiques
Nearest frequency peer: antinomiques (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « apatite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antidouleur
antidouleur
28,758 corpus weight
- antillaises
antillaises
28,757 corpus weight
- antinomiques
antinomiques
28,756 corpus weight
- apatite
apatite
28,755 corpus weight
- apicole
apicole
28,754 corpus weight
- appareille
appareille
28,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apatite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apatite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pa.tit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apatite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apatite is uncommon French at frequency #71,246 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pa.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom générique désignant des phosphates de calcium hexagonaux de composition assez variable.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apatite, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is apatite, spelled A-P-A-T-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom générique désignant des phosphates de calcium hexagonaux de composition assez variable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apatite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…: d’autre part l’agrégation naturelle de cristaux d’apatite, susceptibles de constituer peu à peu une sorte d’antenne radio (de manière à augmenter ses capacités émettrices-réceptrices). Comme tous les cristaux, l’apatite présente des propriétés vibratoires et donc d’émission-réception d’informations.
L’apatite, qui constitue le tissu minéralisé des vertébrés, est un minéral plus résistant aux processus de diagenèse, car elle est beaucoup moins soluble que les carbonates de calcium.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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