lawrencium

/\lɔ.ʁɑ̃.sjɔm\/ noun

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10 characters

Language

French

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lawrencium is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 103 et de symbole Lr (Lw entre 1961 et 1963 ; la Commission de nomenclature inorganique avait déterminé que la lettre ‘w’ était problématique pour certaines lang... Pronounced \lɔ.ʁɑ̃.sjɔm\.

Key facts for lawrencium
PropertyValue
Headwordlawrencium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɔ.ʁɑ̃.sjɔm\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lawrencium is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lawrencium is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔ.ʁɑ̃.sjɔm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lawrencium in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 lawrencium, spelled L-A-W-R-E-N-C-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Élément chimique de numéro atomique 103 et de symbole Lr (Lw entre 1961 et 1963 ; la Commission de nomenclature inorganique avait déterminé que la lettre ‘w’ était problématique pour certaines langues) appartenant à la série chimique des actinides.
  2. 2
    Métal pur de cet élément.
  3. 3
    Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) de lawrencium.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lawrencium"?
"lawrencium" is spelled L-A-W-R-E-N-C-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \lɔ.ʁɑ̃.sjɔm\.
What does "lawrencium" mean?
As a noun, "lawrencium" means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 103 et de symbole Lr (Lw entre 1961 et 1963 ; la Commission de nomenclature inorganique avait déterminé que la lettre ‘w’ était problématique pour certaines lang...
How do you pronounce "lawrencium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lawrencium" is \lɔ.ʁɑ̃.sjɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.