becquerel
\bɛ.kʁɛl\
The verdict
“becquerel” is uncommon French (frequency #73,756 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,756
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure d’activité des radionucléides du Système international, égale à une désintégration par seconde, et dont le symbole est Bq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-becquerel · becquerel · French
becquerel · rank #73,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,756
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baur
Nearest frequency peer: Baur (-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 « becquerel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- battrons
battrons
26,248 corpus weight
- Baudot
Baudot
26,247 corpus weight
- Baur
Baur
26,246 corpus weight
- becquerel
becquerel
26,245 corpus weight
- beira
beira
26,244 corpus weight
- Belgica
Belgica
26,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « becquerel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | becquerel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.kʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « becquerel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
becquerel is uncommon French at frequency #73,756 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ.kʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure d’activité des radionucléides du Système international, égale à une désintégration par seconde, et dont le symbole est Bq.".
becquerel has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is becquerel, spelled B-E-C-Q-U-E-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure d’activité des radionucléides du Système international, égale à une désintégration par seconde, et dont le symbole est Bq.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how becquerel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le SCPRI s’obstine à compter en curies, unité remplacée aujourd'hui par le becquerel (1 becquerel = 27 picocuries).
En effet, 17 % des maisons testées dépassent la norme canadienne, qui est de 200 becquerels par mètre cube.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).