stéatite
\ste.a.tit\
The verdict
“stéatite” is uncommon French (frequency #92,224 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,224
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche très tendre, principalement composée de talc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steatite · stéatite · French
stéatite · rank #92,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,224
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sténographe
Nearest frequency peer: sténographe (+1 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 « stéatite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Stefanie
Stefanie
7,781 corpus weight
- stomatologie
stomatologie
7,780 corpus weight
- stronger
stronger
7,779 corpus weight
- stéatite
stéatite
7,777 corpus weight
- sténographe
sténographe
7,776 corpus weight
- sucez
sucez
7,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stéatite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stéatite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ste.a.tit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stéatite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stéatite is uncommon French at frequency #92,224 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ste.a.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roche très tendre, principalement composée de talc.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stéatite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is stéatite, spelled S-T-É-A-T-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche très tendre, principalement composée de talc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stéatite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains Thuléens reviennent ensuite vers l’Alaska, rapportant avec eux des éléments culturels acquis dans l’Est, comme le remplacement de la poterie par des récipients en stéatite et l’utilisation de l’iglou de neige.
De nombreux sceaux en stéatite (silicate de magnésium fournissant le talc), durcis au feu, représentent des animaux et comportent une écriture mal déchiffrée d’environ 270 signes.
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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