potassium
French, noun/pɔ.ta.sjɔm/
potassium is spelled P-O-T-A-S-S-I-U-M (9 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Potassium is a French masculine noun meaning “potassium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élément chimique de numéro atomique 19 et de symbole K”.
What does potassium mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepotassium
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Élément chimique de numéro atomique 19 et de symbole K. 2. Métal alcalin mou, d’aspect blanc métallique. Il s’oxyde rapidement au contact de l’air, et réagit violemment avec l’eau. 3. Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) de potassium.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of potassium
- potassiums plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce potassium?
- /pɔ.ta.sjɔm/
- \pɔ.ta.sjɔm\
- [pɔ.ta.sjɔm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to potassium
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is potassium in French?
potassium appears 2.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).