carbonate de calcium
\kaʁ.bɔ.nat də kal.sjɔm\
The verdict
“carbonate de calcium” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Composé ionique formé par la combinaison d’un ion carbonate (CO₃²⁻) avec un ion calcium (Ca²⁺).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carbonate de calcium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.bɔ.nat də kal.sjɔm\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carbonate de calcium” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carbonate de calcium is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.bɔ.nat də kal.sjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé ionique formé par la combinaison d’un ion carbonate (CO₃²⁻) avec un ion calcium (Ca²⁺).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carbonate de calcium, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is carbonate de calcium, spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-A-T-E- -D-E- -C-A-L-C-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Composé ionique formé par la combinaison d’un ion carbonate (CO₃²⁻) avec un ion calcium (Ca²⁺).
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-B-O-N-A-T-E- -D-E- -C-A-L-C-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ.bɔ.nat də kal.sjɔm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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