cadmium
French, noun/kad.mjɔm/
cadmium is spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cadmium is a French masculine noun meaning “cadmium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élément chimique de numéro atomique 48 et de symbole Cd qui fait partie de la série chimique des métaux de…”.
What does cadmium mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecadmium
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Élément chimique de numéro atomique 48 et de symbole Cd qui fait partie de la série chimique des métaux de transition ; il possède 41 isotopes connus dont 17 ont un ou plusieurs isomères nucléaires ; huit isotopes du cadmium sont naturellement présents sur terre. 2. Corps simple, métallique, malléable, toxique, qui a la couleur et l’éclat de l’étain.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cadmium
- cadmiums plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cadmium?
- /kad.mjɔm/
- \kad.mjɔm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cadmium
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cadmium in French?
cadmium appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).