seaborgium
/siːˈbɔːɹɡiəm/noun
seaborgium is a noun meaning “A transuranic chemical element (symbol Sg) with atomic number 106” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-A-B-O-R-G-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does seaborgium mean?
noun
- 1
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Sg) with atomic number 106.
- 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 seaborgium?
- /siːˈbɔːɹɡiəm/
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)-seaborgium.wav, En-seaborgium.oga, En-uk-seaborgium.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is seaborgium?
Seaborgium appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).
Seaborgium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chemical element with atomic number 106:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | seaborgium |
| German | Seaborgium |
| Portuguese | seabórgio |
| Spanish | seaborgio |
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 seaborgium come from?
From Seaborg + -ium, named for Glenn T. Seaborg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).