silice
French, noun/si.lis/
silice is spelled S-I-L-I-C-E (6 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,485th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silice is a French feminine noun meaning “silica (silicon dioxide)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dioxyde de silicium, (SiO₂)”.
What does silice mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesilica (silicon dioxide)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dioxyde de silicium, (SiO₂). 2. Minéral dur et stable, présent, sous forme de quartz, dans les roches magmatiques acides, sous forme cristalline ou à l’état amorphe dans les roches volcaniques, ou en dépôt d’alluvion souvent éolien et qui parfois est utilisé dans la fabrication du verre, du cristal, de la faïence, de la porcelaine.
adjective: 1. Qui contient de la silice; qui en a les caractères.
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 silice
- silices plural
- silicés plural masculine
- silicée singular feminine
- silicées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce silice?
- /si.lis/
- \si.lis\
- \si.li.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to silice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is silice in French?
silice appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).