xylite
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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xylite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Produit retrouvé au XIXᵉ siècle comme impureté dans le méthanol, aussi nommée lignone et dont la densité relative est de 0,816 et la température d’ébullition de 61,5°C. Pronounced \ɡzi.lit\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xylite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡzi.lit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for xylite is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡzi.lit\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for xylite in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is xylite, spelled X-Y-L-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Produit retrouvé au XIXᵉ siècle comme impureté dans le méthanol, aussi nommée lignone et dont la densité relative est de 0,816 et la température d’ébullition de 61,5°C.
- 2Ancien nom du xylitol.
- 3Type particulier de houille proche de la lignite.
- 4Minéral brun découvert dans l'Oural au XIXᵉ siècle, dont l'aspect extérieur ressemble au bois (d’où son nom), il s'agit probablement d'un aluminosillicate dégradé.
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