rhenium
/ˈɹiːniəm/noun
rhenium is a noun meaning “A metallic chemical element with the atomic number 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-E-N-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhenium is rheniums.
What does rhenium mean?
noun
- 1
A metallic chemical element with the atomic number 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition 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 pronounce rhenium?
- /ˈɹiːniəm/
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Forms of rhenium
- rheniums plural
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How common is rhenium?
Rhenium appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Rhenium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemical element:
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Where does rhenium come from?
From Latin Rhenus (“Rhine”), + -ium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).