baryum
\ba.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“baryum” is uncommon French (frequency #62,808 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,808
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 56 et de symbole Ba qui fait partie de la série chimique des métaux alcalino-terreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baryum · baryum · French
baryum · rank #62,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,808
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bannies
Nearest frequency peer: bannies (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baryum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bambino
bambino
37,196 corpus weight
- bamboula
bamboula
37,195 corpus weight
- bannies
bannies
37,194 corpus weight
- baryum
baryum
37,193 corpus weight
- bassa
bassa
37,191 corpus weight
- beigne
beigne
37,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baryum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baryum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baryum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baryum is uncommon French at frequency #62,808 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for baryum, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is baryum, spelled B-A-R-Y-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 56 et de symbole Ba qui fait partie de la série chimique des métaux alcalino-terreux.
- 2Métal argenté, mou et qui fond à haute température, forme métallique pure de l’élément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baryum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les produits chimiques employés pour obtenir ce résultat sont des dissolutions aqueuses de peroxydes alcalins et alcalino-terreux; peroxyde de sodium, de potassium, de baryum, etc. ….
Du nitrate de soude pour le jaune... du baryum pour le vert.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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