atomic
/əˈtɑː.mɪk/adjective, noun
atomic is spelled A-T-O-M-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is atomical: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Atomic is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic”.
How many letters and syllables are in atomic?
| Letters | 6: A-T-O-M-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, atomical, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell atomic?
Atomic is spelled A-T-O-M-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for atomic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is atomic?
Atomic appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce atomic?
- UK /əˈtɒm.ɪk/
- US /əˈtɑː.mɪk/
- Australia /əˈtɔm.ɪk/
Atomic has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-atomic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with atomic?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as atomic from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmɪk/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of atomic
- atomics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does atomic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
A stream of atomic hydrogen is emitted.
- 2
Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
atomic energy; atomic bombs
- 3
colloquialVery strong and overpowering.
- 4
Infinitesimally small.
The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.
- 5
Unable to be split or made any smaller.
A bit is an atomic item of data.
- 6
Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
- 7
Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
- 8
Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.
noun
- 1
An atomic operation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate atomic?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of atomic: ABC.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Atomic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | atomique , nucléaire , microscopique, infinitésimal |
| German | atomar, atomisch , Atom- |
| Portuguese | atômico, atómico , nuclear |
| Spanish | atómico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.