cyanure de sodium
The verdict
“cyanure de sodium” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (nom UICPA) Sel de l’acide cyanhydrique et de l’hydroxyde de sodium de formule brute NaCN, extrêmement toxique et ayant une forte affinité pour les métaux ; il est principalement utilisé pour extra...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyanure de sodium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sja.nyʁ də sɔ.djɔm\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cyanure de sodium” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cyanure de sodium is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sja.nyʁ də sɔ.djɔm\. 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 sodium de formule brute NaCN, extrêmement toxique et ayant une forte affinité pour les métaux ; il est principalement utilisé pour extra...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cyanure de sodium 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 cyanure de sodium, spelled C-Y-A-N-U-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-D-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(nom UICPA) Sel de l’acide cyanhydrique et de l’hydroxyde de sodium de formule brute NaCN, extrêmement toxique et ayant une forte affinité pour les métaux ; il est principalement utilisé pour extraire l’or du minerai.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-Y-A-N-U-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-D-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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