berkelio

/[beɾˈkeljo]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

berkelio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico de la tabla periódica cuyo símbolo es Bk y su número atómico es 97. Pertenece al grupo de los actínidos. Elemento transuránico, inexistente en la naturaleza, de número atómico 97 y... Pronounced [beɾˈkeljo].

Key facts for berkelio
PropertyValue
Headwordberkelio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[beɾˈkeljo]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

berkelio is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for berkelio is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beɾˈkeljo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Elemento químico de la tabla periódica cuyo símbolo es Bk y su número atómico es 97. Pertenece al grupo de los actínidos. Elemento transuránico, inexistente en la naturaleza, de número atómico 97 y...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for berkelio in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is berkelio, spelled B-E-R-K-E-L-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Elemento químico de la tabla periódica cuyo símbolo es Bk y su número atómico es 97. Pertenece al grupo de los actínidos. Elemento transuránico, inexistente en la naturaleza, de número atómico 97 y configuración electrónica [Rn]5/97s2, obtenido en diciembre de 1949 por S.G. Thompson, A. Ghiorso y G.T. Seaborg en la Universidad de California (Berkeley), al bombardear el americio (de número atómico 95) con partículas alfa en un ciclotrón de 152 cm.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "berkelio"?
"berkelio" is spelled B-E-R-K-E-L-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [beɾˈkeljo].
What does "berkelio" mean?
As a noun, "berkelio" means: Elemento químico de la tabla periódica cuyo símbolo es Bk y su número atómico es 97. Pertenece al grupo de los actínidos. Elemento transuránico, inexistente en la naturaleza, de número atómico 97 y...
How do you pronounce "berkelio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "berkelio" is [beɾˈkeljo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "berkelio" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.