quartzite
\kwaʁ.tsit\
The verdict
“quartzite” is uncommon French (frequency #76,936 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,936
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche siliceuse massive, constituée de cristaux de quartz soudés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quartzite · quartzite · French
quartzite · rank #76,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,936
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH questionnait
Nearest frequency peer: questionnait (+3 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 « quartzite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pélagiques
pélagiques
23,070 corpus weight
- péritoine
péritoine
23,069 corpus weight
- quartzite
quartzite
23,065 corpus weight
- questionnait
questionnait
23,062 corpus weight
- quittées
quittées
23,061 corpus weight
- racism
racism
23,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quartzite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartzite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwaʁ.tsit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quartzite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quartzite is uncommon French at frequency #76,936 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwaʁ.tsit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roche siliceuse massive, constituée de cristaux de quartz soudés.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quartzite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 quartzite, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-Z-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche siliceuse massive, constituée de cristaux de quartz soudés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quartzite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le terrain ardoisier montre une succession de schistes et de quartzites des nuances les plus diverses, dont l’inclinaison générale est vers le sud de la boussole.
Dans les environs de Zermo, dans la région comprise entre les deux massifs de quartzite qui se dressent au nord-est et au sud-est de Zinder, et dont nous avons déjà parlé, le granite émerge encore en plusieurs points au milieu des sables.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).