sodium
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,267
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
sodium is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 11 et de symbole Na qui fait partie des métaux alcalins. On ne le trouve pas à l'état de corps pur dans la nature, mais il est très abondant sous forme de compos... Pronounced \so.djɔm\. Often confused with stadium.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sodium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.djɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sodium is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.djɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,267 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sodium, with forms such as "osdium", "sdoium", and "soddium". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "stadium", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 sodium, spelled S-O-D-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 11 et de symbole Na qui fait partie des métaux alcalins. On ne le trouve pas à l'état de corps pur dans la nature, mais il est très abondant sous forme de composés, par exemple dans le sel de table.
- 2Forme métallique pure de cet élément, métal alcalin blanc argenté, mou et très réactif.
- 3Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) de sodium.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osdium,sdoium,soddium,sodimu,sodiumm,soduim,soidum,ssodium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sodium
Misspelling Variants of "sodium"
Frequency rank: #13,267 in French
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