This is the 5869th most frequent French word.
curie
"Curie" refers to a unit of radioactivity or can denote Marie Curie, the famous physicist and chemist.
Proper noun: 'Curie' refers to the scientist Marie Curie, a specific individual.
Marie Curie a découvert le radium.
Marie Curie discovered radium.
Common noun: 'curie' refers to the unit used in science to measure radioactivity.
Un curie est une unité de mesure de la radioactivité.
A curie is a unit of measurement for radioactivity.
Name of a person: 'Curie' is used as a proper noun for the name of a priest.