kaolinite

1. 1.

   a mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin

   Broadermineral

Other forms of kaolinite

plural

kaolinites·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kaolinite

What does kaolinite mean?

kaolinite means "a mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin".

How many syllables are in kaolinite?

kaolinite has 3 syllables: kao-li-nite. The stress falls on "kao".

Is kaolinite a common word?

kaolinite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.