cadmium 133

/\kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃t.tʁwa\/ noun

The verdict

“cadmium 133” 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 nombre de masse 133 et de symbole 133 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 61(6) ms ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en indium 133...

Key facts for cadmium 133
PropertyValue
Headwordcadmium 133
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃t.tʁwa\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cadmium 133” sits in French frequency

cadmium 133 falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cadmium 133 is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃t.tʁwa\. 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 nombre de masse 133 et de symbole 133 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 61(6) ms ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en indium 133...".

No misspelling variants are generated for cadmium 133 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 133, spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-3-3, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Isotope instable du cadmium de nombre de masse 133 et de symbole 133 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 61(6) ms ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en indium 133 — 133 49In — ou une émission de neutron β-retardée à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en indium 132 —132 49In.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cadmium 133"?
"cadmium 133" is spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-3-3. The IPA pronunciation is \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃t.tʁwa\.
What does "cadmium 133" mean?
As a noun, "cadmium 133" means: Isotope instable du cadmium de nombre de masse 133 et de symbole 133 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 61(6) ms ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁻ à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en indium 133...
How do you pronounce "cadmium 133"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cadmium 133" is \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃t.tʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cadmium 133”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -1-3-3 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kad.mjɔm sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃t.tʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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