malachite
French, noun/ma.la.kit/
malachite is spelled M-A-L-A-C-H-I-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malachite is a French feminine noun meaning “malachite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce minérale du groupe des carbonates et du sous-groupe des carbonates anhydres avec anions étrangers de…”.
What does malachite mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemalachite
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce minérale du groupe des carbonates et du sous-groupe des carbonates anhydres avec anions étrangers de formule Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂, susceptible de recevoir un beau poli et employée pour la fabrication d’objets d’ornement.
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 malachite
- malachites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malachite?
- /ma.la.kit/
- \ma.la.kit\
- [ma.la.kit]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malachite
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malachite in French?
malachite appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).