lutetium
/ljuːˈtiːʃiəm/noun
lutetium is a noun meaning “The chemical element with atomic number 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-T-E-T-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does lutetium mean?
noun
- 1
The chemical element with atomic number 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.
- 2
An 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 lutetium?
- /ljuːˈtiːʃiəm/
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Forms of lutetium
- lutecium
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lutetium?
Lutetium appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).
Lutetium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemical element with atomic number of 71:
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Where does lutetium come from?
From Latin Lutetia (“Paris, the capital of France”) + -ium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).