cadmium 97
The verdict
“cadmium 97” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency French
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Isotope synthétique instable du cadmium de nombre de masse 97, de symbole 97 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 1,16(5) s ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁺ (probabilité de 92,6 %) à l’issue de laquel...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadmium 97 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kad.mjɔm ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.di.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadmium 97” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadmium 97 is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kad.mjɔm ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.di.sɛt\. 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 synthétique instable du cadmium de nombre de masse 97, de symbole 97 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 1,16(5) s ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁺ (probabilité de 92,6 %) à l’issue de laquel...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadmium 97 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 97, spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -9-7, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Isotope synthétique instable du cadmium de nombre de masse 97, de symbole 97 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 1,16(5) s ; il peut subir une désintégration β⁺ (probabilité de 92,6 %) à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en argent 97 — 97 47Ag — ou il peut subir une émission de proton β-retardée (probabilité de 7,4 %) à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en palladium 96 — 96 46Pd
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -9-7 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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