magnon
\maɡ.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“magnon” is uncommon French (frequency #54,708 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,708
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quasi-particule résultant de l’excitation collective des spins des électrons d’un cristal. Alternativement, quantum d’onde de spin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magnon · magnon · French
magnon · rank #54,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,708
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnats
Nearest frequency peer: magnats (-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 « magnon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MACIF
MACIF
45,296 corpus weight
- macroscopiq…
macroscopique
45,295 corpus weight
- magnats
magnats
45,294 corpus weight
- magnon
magnon
45,293 corpus weight
- MAIF
MAIF
45,292 corpus weight
- maigreur
maigreur
45,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magnon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magnon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maɡ.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magnon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magnon is uncommon French at frequency #54,708 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maɡ.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quasi-particule résultant de l’excitation collective des spins des électrons d’un cristal. Alternativement, quantum d’onde de spin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for magnon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is magnon, spelled M-A-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Quasi-particule résultant de l’excitation collective des spins des électrons d’un cristal. Alternativement, quantum d’onde de spin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how magnon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si on se restreint à des états à un seul magnon, on trouve, en effet, que les opérateurs de création et d’annihilation de magnon vérifient bien les relations de commutation des opérateurs de bosons.
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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