bauxite
\bok.sit\
The verdict
“bauxite” is uncommon French (frequency #51,911 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,911
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche sédimentaire caractérisée par sa forte teneur en alumine et en oxydes de fer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bauxite · bauxite · French
bauxite · rank #51,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,911
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Batavia
Nearest frequency peer: Batavia (-2 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 « bauxite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bananier
bananier
48,094 corpus weight
- baptismaux
baptismaux
48,093 corpus weight
- Batavia
Batavia
48,092 corpus weight
- bauxite
bauxite
48,090 corpus weight
- Berliner
Berliner
48,088 corpus weight
- berlinoise
berlinoise
48,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bauxite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bauxite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bok.sit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bauxite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bauxite is uncommon French at frequency #51,911 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bok.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roche sédimentaire caractérisée par sa forte teneur en alumine et en oxydes de fer.".
bauxite doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bauxite, spelled B-A-U-X-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche sédimentaire caractérisée par sa forte teneur en alumine et en oxydes de fer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bauxite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'origine des bauxites, dit M. Coquand, se rattache incontestablement à l'intervention de sources minérales qui ont apporté, soit dans les lacs, soit à la surface des sols immergés, les aluminates de fer et les diaspores qui constituent les minerais de bauxite.
La bauxite est encore utilisée dans cette industrie.
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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