becquerel
\bɛ.kʁɛl\
The verdict
“becquerel” is uncommon French (frequency #73,756 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,756
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité de mesure d’activité des radionucléides du Système international, égale à une désintégration par seconde, et dont le symbole est Bq.
| 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) |
Where “becquerel” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
becquerel is uncommon French at frequency #73,756 among 227,490 “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.
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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Using “becquerel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-C-Q-U-E-R-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛ.kʁɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.