cyanure de potassium
\sja.nyʁ də pɔ.ta.sjɔm\
The verdict
“cyanure de potassium” 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 September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cyanure-de-potassium · cyanure de potassium · French
cyanure de potassium · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cyanure de potassium is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sja.nyʁ də pɔ.ta.sjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cyanure de potassium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au sortir d’une soirée, je m’étais sauvé en courant, serrant dans ma main droite un flacon de cyanure de potassium rapporté par l’Homme-à-la-tête-d’épingle du laboratoire de chimie où il faisait alors ses études ; bien entendu mes compagnons me rattrapèrent avant même que j’aie pu approcher le flacon de mes lèvres.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.