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baryté

French, adjective

baryté is spelled B-A-R-Y-T-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baryté is a French adjective meaning “barytic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, baryte is a different word: “barite”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui contient du baryum”.

What does baryté mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    barytic

noun

as baryte
  1. 1

    femininebarite

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Hydroxyde de baryum (Ba(OH)₂·H₂O).. 2. Oxyde de baryum (BaO), qui est un composé instable, hygroscopique.

adjective: 1. Qui contient du baryum.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of baryté

  • barytes plural
  • barite alternative
  • barote alternative
  • barytine alternative
  • barytée feminine
  • barytés masculine plural
  • barytées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to baryté

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is baryté in French?

baryté appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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