samarium
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8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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samarium is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 62 et de symbole Sm qui fait partie de la série chimique des lanthanides et des terres rares. Pronounced \sa.ma.ʁjɔm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samarium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ma.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for samarium is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ma.ʁjɔm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for samarium 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 samarium, spelled S-A-M-A-R-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 62 et de symbole Sm qui fait partie de la série chimique des lanthanides et des terres rares.
- 2Métal pur de cet élément, très rare, argenté, relativement stable à l'air à température ambiante.
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