Polonium

[poˈloːni̯ʊm]

/[poˈloːni̯ʊm]/ noun

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The verdict

“Polonium” is uncommon German (frequency #90,734 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,734
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 84, das zu den Metallen gehört

Corpus desk

Index DE-polonium · Polonium · German

Polonium · rank #90,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,734
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH polizeiliches

Nearest frequency peer: polizeiliches (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Polonium“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Polonium“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Polonium
PropertyValue
HeadwordPolonium
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[poˈloːni̯ʊm]
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,734
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Polonium“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Poloniumfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „polizeiliches“ (#90,733), „pompösen“ (#90,735), „poems“ (#90,732). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „Polonium“ bei #90,734. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Polonium is uncommon German at frequency #90,734 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [poˈloːni̯ʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 84, das zu den Metallen gehört".

Polonium has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Polonium, spelled P-O-L-O-N-I-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 84, das zu den Metallen gehört

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Polonium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Alle Isotope des Poloniums sind radioaktiv und haben eine geringe Halbwertszeit.

This word in other languages

polonium(English)polonio(Español)polonium(Français)polónio(Português)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Polonium"?
"Polonium" is spelled P-O-L-O-N-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [poˈloːni̯ʊm].
What does "Polonium" mean?
As a noun, "Polonium" means: chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 84, das zu den Metallen gehört
How do you pronounce "Polonium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Polonium" is [poˈloːni̯ʊm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Polonium", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pompösen#90,735prepared#90,746Nijmegen#90,687Neumanns#90,681

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list