cyanure de potassium
\sja.nyʁ də pɔ.ta.sjɔm\
The verdict
“cyanure de potassium” 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
- 20
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (nom UICPA) Sel de l’acide cyanhydrique et de l’hydroxyde de potassium de formule brute KCN, ce composé chimique incolore, solide dans les conditions normales de température et de pression est haut...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyanure de potassium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sja.nyʁ də pɔ.ta.sjɔm\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cyanure de potassium” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cyanure de potassium is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sja.nyʁ də pɔ.ta.sjɔm\. 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: "(nom UICPA) Sel de l’acide cyanhydrique et de l’hydroxyde de potassium de formule brute KCN, ce composé chimique incolore, solide dans les conditions normales de température et de pression est haut...".
Zero misspellings are on record for cyanure de potassium in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cyanure de potassium, spelled C-Y-A-N-U-R-E- -D-E- -P-O-T-A-S-S-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1(nom UICPA) Sel de l’acide cyanhydrique et de l’hydroxyde de potassium de formule brute KCN, ce composé chimique incolore, solide dans les conditions normales de température et de pression est hautement toxique.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-Y-A-N-U-R-E- -D-E- -P-O-T-A-S-S-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.