gadolinium
/ˌɡæd.əˈlɪn.i.əm/
"gadolinium" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gadolinium” is uncommon English (frequency #84,280 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,280
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A chemical element (symbol Gd) with atomic number 64: a ductile silvery-white metal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gadolinium · gadolinium · English
gadolinium · rank #84,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,280
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gamedev
Nearest frequency peer: gamedev (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “gadolinium”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fruitlessly
fruitlessly
15,729 corpus weight
- furth
furth
15,724 corpus weight
- Fylde
Fylde
15,723 corpus weight
- gadolinium
gadolinium
15,721 corpus weight
- gamedev
gamedev
15,720 corpus weight
- gatekeeping
gatekeeping
15,716 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gadolinium” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gadolinium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɡæd.əˈlɪn.i.əm/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gadolinium” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gadolinium is uncommon English at frequency #84,280 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɡæd.əˈlɪn.i.əm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A chemical element (symbol Gd) with atomic number 64: a ductile silvery-white metal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gadolinium in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after chemist Johan Gadolin, a Swedish-speaking Finn, + -ium. The correct English form is gadolinium, spelled G-A-D-O-L-I-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1A chemical element (symbol Gd) with atomic number 64: a ductile silvery-white metal.
Etymology
Named after chemist Johan Gadolin, a Swedish-speaking Finn, + -ium.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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