magnésie
\ma.ɲe.zi\
The verdict
“magnésie” is uncommon French (frequency #70,809 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,809
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oxyde de magnésium, poudre blanche que l’on obtient par la calcination de son carbonate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magnesie · magnésie · French
magnésie · rank #70,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,809
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnificat
Nearest frequency peer: magnificat (-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 « magnésie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- léontine
léontine
29,196 corpus weight
- Mady
Mady
29,194 corpus weight
- magnificat
magnificat
29,193 corpus weight
- magnésie
magnésie
29,192 corpus weight
- majestés
majestés
29,191 corpus weight
- maltraitées
maltraitées
29,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magnésie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magnésie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɲe.zi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magnésie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magnésie is uncommon French at frequency #70,809 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ɲe.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for magnésie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is magnésie, spelled M-A-G-N-É-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Oxyde de magnésium, poudre blanche que l’on obtient par la calcination de son carbonate.
- 2Magnésium.
- 3Synonyme de périclase. Autrefois appelée magnésie car utilisée à l’origine dans la région de Magnésie dans l’ancienne Anatolie. Mais les pierres de cette région contenaient aussi bien de l’oxyde de magnésium ou du carbonate de magnésium hydraté que de l’oxyde de fer (telle la magnétite).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magnésie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eaux magnésiennes. Ces eaux, chargées de magnésie carbonatée et d’autres sels plus ou moins complexes, sont le plus souvent impotables et surtout très mauvaises en irrigation.
On emploie également des batteries de plusieurs cuves renfermant de la sciure de bois recouverte d’hydrate de magnésie.
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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