thallium
\ta.ljɔm\
The verdict
“thallium” is uncommon French (frequency #86,244 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,244
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de symbole Tl et de numéro atomique 81. ; il appartient à la série chimique des métaux pauvres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thallium · thallium · French
thallium · rank #86,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,244
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thiery
Nearest frequency peer: Thiery (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « thallium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terminerons
terminerons
13,762 corpus weight
- termini
termini
13,761 corpus weight
- thallium
thallium
13,757 corpus weight
- Thiery
Thiery
13,756 corpus weight
- Thoma
Thoma
13,755 corpus weight
- thun
thun
13,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thallium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thallium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ljɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thallium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thallium is uncommon French at frequency #86,244 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ljɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
thallium has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is thallium, spelled T-H-A-L-L-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de symbole Tl et de numéro atomique 81. ; il appartient à la série chimique des métaux pauvres.
- 2Corps simple, métallique, d’aspect blanchâtre.
- 3Sel de thallium comme le sulfure de thallium utilisé comme poison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thallium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’inspecteur général rapporte aussi un autre projet: on voulait détruire l’image du Castro « barbu » en saupoudrant ses chaussures de sels de thallium, un dépilatoire puissant qui lui aurait fait tomber la barbe.
Auguste Lamy découvre, grâce à l’analyse spectrale, un nouveau métal, le thallium et isole ses spécificités, fabriquant le premier lingot de thallium connu.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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