calcium
\kal.sjɔm\
The verdict
“calcium” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,336
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 20 et de symbole Ca qui fait partie des métaux alcalino-terreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calcium · calcium · French
calcium · rank #13,336 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,336
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bémol
Nearest frequency peer: bémol (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « calcium »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- BP
BP
86,668 corpus weight
- Brexit
Brexit
86,667 corpus weight
- bémol
bémol
86,666 corpus weight
- calcium
calcium
86,665 corpus weight
- canards
canards
86,664 corpus weight
- carole
carole
86,663 corpus weight
What this shows « calcium » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.sjɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calcium »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around calcium (IPA \kal.sjɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,336 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for calcium, with forms such as "aclcium", "caclium", and "calccium". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cadmium", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is calcium, spelled C-A-L-C-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 20 et de symbole Ca qui fait partie des métaux alcalino-terreux.
- 2Ion de cet élément, noté Ca²⁺ ou Ca⁺⁺.
- 3Métal gris et mou, forme métallique pure de l’élément.
- 4Atome, noyau de calcium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calcium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sels de calcium entrent dans la constitution de tous les tissus animaux et végétaux.
Si tous les sols contiennent l’élément chimique calcium, tous ne contiennent pas de carbonate de calcium.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclcium
- caclium
- calccium
- calcimu
- calciumm
- calcuim
- calicum
- callcium
- ccalcium
- clacium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calcium - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).