cadmium 117m
The verdict
“cadmium 117m” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Isomère nucléaire du cadmium 117, de symbole 117m 48Cd, dont la demi-vie est de 3,441(9) h ; il est sujet à la désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en indium 117 — 117 49In.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadmium 117m |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.dis.sɛ.t‿ɛm\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadmium 117m” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadmium 117m is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.dis.sɛ.t‿ɛm\. 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: "Isomère nucléaire du cadmium 117, de symbole 117m 48Cd, dont la demi-vie est de 3,441(9) h ; il est sujet à la désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en indium 117 — 117 49In.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadmium 117m 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 117m, spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-1-7-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Isomère nucléaire du cadmium 117, de symbole 117m 48Cd, dont la demi-vie est de 3,441(9) h ; il est sujet à la désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en indium 117 — 117 49In.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-1-7-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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