magnesium
mag·ne·si·um/ˌmæɡˈnizi.əm/noun
magnesium is spelled M-A-G-N-E-S-I-U-M: 9 letters and 4 syllables (mag·ne·si·um). It appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, magnesium means “The chemical element with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in magnesium?
| Letters | 9: M-A-G-N-E-S-I-U-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: mag·ne·si·um |
| In writing | 3.1 times per million words; the 15,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is magnesium?
Magnesium appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th 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).
How do you pronounce magnesium?
- UK /ˌmæɡˈniːzi.əm/
- US /ˌmæɡˈnizi.əm/
- US /ˌmæɡˈniʒəm/
Magnesium has 4 syllables, split mag·ne·si·um in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-magnesium.wav, En-us-magnesium.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-magnesium.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with magnesium?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as magnesium from its last stressed vowel (/iziəm/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does magnesium mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The chemical element with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.
- 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 abbreviate magnesium?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of magnesium: mag.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Magnesium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemical element:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does magnesium come from?
From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).