Felspar

Definition: Felspar

Felspar

Noun

1. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.

Date "felspar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

"Felspar" is a common misspelling or typo for: feldspar.

Specialty Definitions: Felspar

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A British spelling of feldspar following an error by Kirwan. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Felspar

Synonym: feldspar (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Felspar

Specialty definitions using "felspar": Carrara porcelain ♦ parian-ware. (references)

Etymologies containing "felspar": Felstone. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Felspar

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference) The 2000 Import and Export Market for Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe in Europe (reference) The 2002 World Forecasts of Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe Export Supplies (reference) The 2003 World Forecasts of Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe Export Supplies (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Felspar

"Felspar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Felspar" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	66.67%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Felspar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
felspar	7
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Modern Translations: Felspar

Language		Translations for "felspar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		veldspaat (feldspar). (various references)

Albanian		feldspat (feldspar), spat fushor. (various references)

Bulgarian		фелдшпат (feldspar). (various references)

Chinese		长石 (Feldspar). (various references)

Dutch		veldspaat (feldspar, feldspath). (various references)

French		feldspath (feldspar, feldspath). (various references)

German		Feldspat (feldspar, feldspath). (various references)

Hungarian		földpát (feldspar). (various references)

Korean		장석 (Feldspar). (various references)

Manx		clagh vane. (various references)

Pig Latin		elsparfay

Portuguese		fogo posto (actionable fire, arson). (various references)

Russian		полевой шпат (feldspar). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		feldspat (feldspar). (various references)

Spanish		feldespato (feldspar). (various references)

Swedish		fältspat (feldspar). (various references)

Turkish		feldispat (feldspar). (various references)

Ukranian		польовий шпат (feldspar). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Felspar

Derivations
	Words beginning with "felspar": felspars. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Felspar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: falser, farles, flares, lapser, parles, pearls.
	-2 letters: alefs, apers, apres, arles, asper, earls, false, fares, farle, farls, fears, feral, flaps, flare, fleas, fraps, lapse, lares, laser, leafs, leaps, lears, paler, pales, pares, parle, parse, peals, pearl, pears, pelfs, pleas, prase, presa, rales, rapes, reals, reaps, safer, salep, sepal, seral, spale, spare, spear.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: earflaps, feldspar, felspars, flappers, flareups, palfreys, parflesh.
	+2 letters: feldspars, flypapers, foreplays, leapfrogs, pedalfers.
	+3 letters: afterclaps, amplifiers, fireplaces, parfleches, parfleshes, persiflage, pilferages, presageful, superflack.
	+4 letters: flameproofs, fleahoppers, leafhoppers, persiflages, platterfuls, plattersful, prefrontals, profligates, superfamily, superficial, superflacks.
	+5 letters: craftspeople, frankpledges, parfocalizes, pasqueflower, prequalifies, professional, professorial, profligacies, proliferates, sprachgefuhl.
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