cadmium 123
The verdict
“cadmium 123” 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 instable du cadmium, de symbole 123 48Cd, de nombre de masse 123, dont demi-vie est de 2,10(2) s ; il est sujet à la désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en indium 123 — ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadmium 123 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.vɛ̃t.tʁwɑ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadmium 123” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadmium 123 is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.vɛ̃t.tʁwɑ\. 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 instable du cadmium, de symbole 123 48Cd, de nombre de masse 123, dont demi-vie est de 2,10(2) s ; il est sujet à la désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en indium 123 — ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadmium 123 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 123, spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-2-3, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Isotope instable du cadmium, de symbole 123 48Cd, de nombre de masse 123, dont demi-vie est de 2,10(2) s ; il est sujet à la désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il se transmute en indium 123 — 123 49In — ; il est issu de la désintégration β⁻ de l’argent 123 et de l’argent 123m1 — 123 47Ag et123m1 47Ag.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-2-3 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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