atomic number 14
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors