cadmium 116
The verdict
“cadmium 116” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Isotope primordial instable du cadmium, de nombre de masse 116, de symbole 116 48Cd, dont la demi-vie est de 2,69(9) × 10¹⁹ années ; il est sujet à la double désintégration bêta moins à l’issue de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadmium 116 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.sɛz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadmium 116” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadmium 116 is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.sɛz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Isotope primordial instable du cadmium, de nombre de masse 116, de symbole 116 48Cd, dont la demi-vie est de 2,69(9) × 10¹⁹ années ; il est sujet à la double désintégration bêta moins à l’issue de ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadmium 116 in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cadmium 116, spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-1-6, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Isotope primordial instable du cadmium, de nombre de masse 116, de symbole 116 48Cd, dont la demi-vie est de 2,69(9) × 10¹⁹ années ; il est sujet à la double désintégration bêta moins à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en étain 116 — 116 50Sn ; il est issu de la désintégration β⁻ de l’argent 116 — 116 47Ag —, de l’argent 116m1 — 116m1 47Ag — et de l’argent 116m2 — 116m2 47Ag.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-1-6 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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