élément-trace métallique
\e.le.mɑ̃ tʁas me.ta.lik\
The verdict
“élément-trace métallique” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Élément présent à l’état de trace dans le sol appartenant à un ensemble comprenant des métaux comme le cadmium, le cuivre, le mercure et le plomb, ou des éléments non métalliques, comme l’arsenic e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élément-trace métallique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.mɑ̃ tʁas me.ta.lik\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “élément-trace métallique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élément-trace métallique is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.le.mɑ̃ tʁas me.ta.lik\. 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: "Élément présent à l’état de trace dans le sol appartenant à un ensemble comprenant des métaux comme le cadmium, le cuivre, le mercure et le plomb, ou des éléments non métalliques, comme l’arsenic e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for élément-trace métallique 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 élément-trace métallique, spelled É-L-É-M-E-N-T---T-R-A-C-E- -M-É-T-A-L-L-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément présent à l’état de trace dans le sol appartenant à un ensemble comprenant des métaux comme le cadmium, le cuivre, le mercure et le plomb, ou des éléments non métalliques, comme l’arsenic et le fluor, ou encore des oligo-éléments, nécessaires ou préjudiciables à la vie, même à faible dose.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-L-É-M-E-N-T---T-R-A-C-E- -M-É-T-A-L-L-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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