silicate
French, noun
silicate is spelled S-I-L-I-C-A-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silicate is a French masculine noun meaning “silicate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, silicaté is a different word: “silicated”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide silicique avec une base”.
What does silicate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesilicate
adjective
- 1
silicated
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide silicique avec une base. 2. Minéral 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.
adjective: 1. Qualifie une base qui est convertie à l’état de sel par l’acide silicique.
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 silicate
- silicates plural
- silicatée feminine
- silicatés masculine plural
- silicatées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to silicate
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is silicate in French?
silicate 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).