indium
\ɛ̃.djɔm\
The verdict
“indium” is uncommon French (frequency #94,910 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,910
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 49 et de symbole In, qui fait partie de la série des métaux pauvres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indium · indium · French
indium · rank #94,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,910
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ince
Nearest frequency peer: ince (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « indium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inachèvement
inachèvement
5,094 corpus weight
- incantatoire
incantatoire
5,093 corpus weight
- ince
ince
5,092 corpus weight
- indium
indium
5,091 corpus weight
- indéfinis
indéfinis
5,090 corpus weight
- infestations
infestations
5,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « indium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.djɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indium is uncommon French at frequency #94,910 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.djɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for indium in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is indium, spelled I-N-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 49 et de symbole In, qui fait partie de la série des métaux pauvres.
- 2Corps simple; métal gris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, l’argent des mines de Potosi contient un élément trace caractéristique, l’Indium qui n’existe pas significativement dans l’argent européen, qui peut être tracé dans le monnayage européen.
Découvert par Reich et Richter, l’indium est un métal argenté très mou.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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