Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saponite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: saponite
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A trioctahedral smectite mineral.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Lars Fredrik Svanberg in 1840, from Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -ite.

Usage

Inflected Forms

saponites (plural)

Synonyms

piotine soapstone

Questions

What does saponite mean?: A trioctahedral smectite mineral.
Where does saponite come from?: Coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Lars Fredrik Svanberg in 1840, from Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -ite.

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