cadmium 98
The verdict
“cadmium 98” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Isotope synthétique instable du cadmium dont le nombre de masse est égal à 98, de symbole 98 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 9,29(10) secondes ; il peut subir soit une désintégration β⁺ (probabilité d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadmium 98 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kad.mjɔm ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.di.z‿ɥit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadmium 98” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadmium 98 is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kad.mjɔm ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.di.z‿ɥit\. 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 dont le nombre de masse est égal à 98, de symbole 98 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 9,29(10) secondes ; il peut subir soit une désintégration β⁺ (probabilité d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadmium 98 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 98, spelled C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -9-8, 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 dont le nombre de masse est égal à 98, de symbole 98 48Cd dont la demi-vie est de 9,29(10) secondes ; il peut subir soit une désintégration β⁺ (probabilité de 99.71 %) à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en argent 98 — 98 47Ag — soit une émission de proton β-retardée (probabilité de 0,29 %) à l’issue de laquelle il est transmuté en palladium 97 — 97 46Pd.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-I-U-M- -9-8 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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