béryllium
\be.ʁi.ljɔm\
The verdict
“béryllium” is uncommon French (frequency #80,015 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,015
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 4 et de symbole Be qui fait partie des métaux alcalino-terreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beryllium · béryllium · French
béryllium · rank #80,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,015
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bébert
Nearest frequency peer: Bébert (-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 « béryllium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Buñuel
Buñuel
19,989 corpus weight
- Bébert
Bébert
19,987 corpus weight
- béryllium
béryllium
19,986 corpus weight
- cafetier
cafetier
19,985 corpus weight
- Calliope
Calliope
19,984 corpus weight
- Callisto
Callisto
19,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « béryllium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | béryllium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ʁi.ljɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « béryllium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
béryllium is uncommon French at frequency #80,015 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ʁi.ljɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for béryllium, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is béryllium, spelled B-É-R-Y-L-L-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 4 et de symbole Be qui fait partie des métaux alcalino-terreux.
- 2Corps simple élémentaire ; métal gris acier.
- 3(Rare) (Physique) (Chimie) (En particulier) Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) de béryllium. #* Dans cet accélérateur de particules, des bérylliums sont lancés sur la cible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how béryllium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ensemble des travaux de nucléosynthèse (primordiale et stellaire) expliquent bien l’ensemble de ce diagramme, à l’exception des éléments lithium, béryllium et bore, dont la synthèse est expliquée par l’interaction entre le rayonnement cosmique et le milieu interstellaire (→ Rayonnement « fossile » du fond diffus).
Certains alliages contiennent du béryllium.
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).