rhodium
/ˈɹoʊdiəm/
"rhodium" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rhodium” is uncommon English (frequency #51,360 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,360
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rhodium · rhodium · English
rhodium · rank #51,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,360
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ribbing
Nearest frequency peer: ribbing (+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 “rhodium”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rennes
Rennes
48,645 corpus weight
- Revlon
Revlon
48,643 corpus weight
- rhodium
rhodium
48,641 corpus weight
- ribbing
ribbing
48,640 corpus weight
- Ricki
Ricki
48,639 corpus weight
- Rida
Rida
48,638 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rhodium” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhodium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹoʊdiəm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rhodium” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rhodium is uncommon English at frequency #51,360 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹoʊdiəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rhodium has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions. The correct English form is rhodium, spelled R-H-O-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
- 2A single atom of this element.
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.
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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