thulium
\ty.ljɔm\
The verdict
“thulium” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 69 et de symbole Tm qui fait partie de la série chimique des lanthanides et des terres rares.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thulium · thulium · French
thulium · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thulium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.ljɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
thulium is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.ljɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for thulium in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is thulium, spelled T-H-U-L-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 69 et de symbole Tm qui fait partie de la série chimique des lanthanides et des terres rares.
- 2Métal pur de cet élément, gris-argenté, malléable, ductile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thulium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le thulium, comme tous les lanthanides, est une terre rare.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.