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scheelite

French, noun\ʃi.lit\

scheelite is a French feminine noun meaning “scheelite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce minérale de tungstate de calcium (CaWO₄), généralement de couleur jaune à brun, mais parfois incolore…”.

What does scheelite mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininescheelite

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Espèce minérale de tungstate de calcium (CaWO₄), généralement de couleur jaune à brun, mais parfois incolore, verte ou bleutée, cristallisant dans le système tétragonal et présentant souvent une fluorescence bleue sous rayons UV.

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 scheelite

  • scheelites plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce scheelite?

  • \ʃi.lit\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to scheelite

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is scheelite in French?

scheelite appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).