décalage de Lamb
\de.ka.laʒ də lɑ̃b\
The verdict
“décalage de Lamb” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Différence d’énergie entre deux niveaux d’énergie de l’électron dans l’atome d’hydrogène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décalage de Lamb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.laʒ də lɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décalage de Lamb” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décalage de Lamb is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ka.laʒ də lɑ̃b\. 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: "Différence d’énergie entre deux niveaux d’énergie de l’électron dans l’atome d’hydrogène.".
No misspelling variants are generated for décalage de Lamb 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 décalage de Lamb, spelled D-É-C-A-L-A-G-E- -D-E- -L-A-M-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Différence d’énergie entre deux niveaux d’énergie de l’électron dans l’atome d’hydrogène.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-A-L-A-G-E- -D-E- -L-A-M-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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