zirconium
\ziʁ.kɔ.njɔm\
The verdict
“zirconium” is uncommon French (frequency #58,368 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,368
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 40 et de symbole Zr, qui fait partie de la série des métaux de transition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zirconium · zirconium · French
zirconium · rank #58,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,368
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH échangeaient
Nearest frequency peer: échangeaient (+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 « zirconium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- WS
WS
41,637 corpus weight
- XVIème
XVIème
41,635 corpus weight
- zirconium
zirconium
41,633 corpus weight
- échangeaient
échangeaient
41,632 corpus weight
- éclatants
éclatants
41,631 corpus weight
- éjecte
éjecte
41,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zirconium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zirconium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ziʁ.kɔ.njɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zirconium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zirconium is uncommon French at frequency #58,368 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ziʁ.kɔ.njɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for zirconium, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is zirconium, spelled Z-I-R-C-O-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 40 et de symbole Zr, qui fait partie de la série des métaux de transition.
- 2Métal de couleur blanc argenté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zirconium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le zirconium est longtemps ignoré et pourtant son abondance dans l’écorce terrestre (0,03 %) est appréciable.
On peut ainsi obtenir un matériau autocicatrisant. C’est le cas, par exemple, de la stabilisation de certaines céramiques par l’inclusion de particules de zircone, oxyde de zirconium, un métal assez semblable au titane.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).