holmium
/ˈhoʊ(l).mi.əm/noun
holmium is a noun meaning “A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-L-M-I-U-M and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of holmium is holmiums.
What does holmium mean?
noun
- 1
A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature.
- 2
A single atom of this element.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce holmium?
- US /ˈhoʊ(l).mi.əm/
Holmium has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-holmium.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-holmium.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-holmium.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of holmium
- holmiums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is holmium?
Holmium appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Holmium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemical element:
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Where does holmium come from?
From Latin Holmia (“Stockholm”), the hometown of Per Teodor Cleve, one of the discoverers of holmium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).