oxyde de calcium
\ɔk.sid də kal.sjɔm\
The verdict
“oxyde de calcium” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Composé chimique hygroscopique pulvérulent, de formule brute CaO, très caustique et alcalin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oxyde de calcium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.sid də kal.sjɔm\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oxyde de calcium” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oxyde de calcium is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔk.sid də kal.sjɔm\. 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: "Composé chimique hygroscopique pulvérulent, de formule brute CaO, très caustique et alcalin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oxyde de calcium 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 oxyde de calcium, spelled O-X-Y-D-E- -D-E- -C-A-L-C-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique hygroscopique pulvérulent, de formule brute CaO, très caustique et alcalin.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-X-Y-D-E- -D-E- -C-A-L-C-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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