ébonite
French, noun/e.bɔ.nit/
ébonite is spelled É-B-O-N-I-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ébonite is a French feminine noun meaning “ebonite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caoutchouc vulcanisé avec 30 à 40 % de soufre matériaux noir, dur , cassant et qui s’employait beaucoup dans…”.
What does ébonite mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineebonite
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caoutchouc vulcanisé avec 30 à 40 % de soufre matériaux noir, dur , cassant et qui s’employait beaucoup dans l’industrie, notamment comme isolateur.
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 ébonite
- ébonites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ébonite?
- /e.bɔ.nit/
- \e.bɔ.nit\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ébonite
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ébonite in French?
ébonite appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).