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rhénium

French, noun/ʁe.njɔm/

rhénium is a French masculine noun meaning “rhenium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élément chimique de numéro atomique 75 et de symbole Re, il appartient à la série chimique des métaux de…”.

What does rhénium mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerhenium

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 75 et de symbole Re, il appartient à la série chimique des métaux de transition. 2. Corps simple métallique de cet élément.

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.

How do you pronounce rhénium?

  • /ʁe.njɔm/
  • \ʁe.njɔm\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to rhénium

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rhénium in French?

rhénium appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).