silicate
\si.li.kat\
The verdict
“silicate” is uncommon French (frequency #74,388 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,388
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide silicique avec une base.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silicate · silicate · French
silicate · rank #74,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,388
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signalera
Nearest frequency peer: signalera (-2 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 « silicate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- senta
senta
25,622 corpus weight
- Servius
Servius
25,621 corpus weight
- sibérienne
sibérienne
25,616 corpus weight
- signalera
signalera
25,615 corpus weight
- silicate
silicate
25,613 corpus weight
- SMD
SMD
25,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « silicate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silicate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.li.kat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « silicate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
silicate is uncommon French at frequency #74,388 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.li.kat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for silicate, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is silicate, spelled S-I-L-I-C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide silicique avec une base.
- 2Minéral cristallin, plus rarement amorphe, formé à partir du composé chimique élémentaire SiO₂. Il constitue 95% de la croûte terrestre. De nombreuses variétés existent : silicates ferromagnésiens, aluminosilicates, silicates d’alumine, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silicate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] par la cuisson il se forme un silicate de plomb et d’alumine, espèce de verre fusible qui recouvre toute la surface.
Le dérivé du silicium le plus important est la silice ou anhydride silicique, auquel correspondent l’acide silicique et les silicates.
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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