feldspath
\fɛld.spat\
The verdict
“feldspath” is uncommon French (frequency #84,799 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,799
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Minéral d’une texture lamelleuse, composé de silice, d’alumine et de potasse, et qui est utilisé pour produire de l’émail blanc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feldspath · feldspath · French
feldspath · rank #84,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,799
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fautives
Nearest frequency peer: fautives (-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 « feldspath »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fatty
fatty
15,205 corpus weight
- faufilant
faufilant
15,204 corpus weight
- fautives
fautives
15,203 corpus weight
- feldspath
feldspath
15,202 corpus weight
- fiera
fiera
15,199 corpus weight
- filo
filo
15,198 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feldspath » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feldspath |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛld.spat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feldspath » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feldspath is uncommon French at frequency #84,799 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛld.spat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Minéral d’une texture lamelleuse, composé de silice, d’alumine et de potasse, et qui est utilisé pour produire de l’émail blanc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for feldspath, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is feldspath, spelled F-E-L-D-S-P-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1Minéral d’une texture lamelleuse, composé de silice, d’alumine et de potasse, et qui est utilisé pour produire de l’émail blanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feldspath appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Moravicza, la plus grande partie de la banatite est formée d'un mélange à grains fins de feldspath, de mica et d'un peu d’amphibole, très-analogue à la première variété de Csiklova. L'analyse donne 60,1 p. 100 de silice.
De tous côtés, sur un sable noirâtre, au milieu de laves vésiculaires, s’éparpillaient des cailloux appartenant à ces silicates alumineux compris sous le nom collectif de feldspath, et dont la présence démontrait irréfutablement que ce littoral n’était qu’un terrain de cristallisation.
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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