atome
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,092
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
atome is aFrenchnoun. It means: Composant de la matière, plus petite partie d’un corps simple pouvant se combiner avec une autre. Pronounced \a.tom\. Often confused with atos and avoué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tom\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for atome is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tom\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,092 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for atome, with forms such as "aotme", "atmoe", and "atoem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "atos", "avoué", "atout", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is atome, spelled A-T-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Composant de la matière, plus petite partie d’un corps simple pouvant se combiner avec une autre.
- 2Énergie nucléaire.
- 3Pour exprimer l’extrême petitesse de certains corps relativement à d’autres, ou à l’espace dans lequel ils existent.
- 4Corps regardé comme indivisible, à cause de son extrême petitesse.
- 5Grains minuscules de poussière qui voltigent en l’air et que l’on aperçoit lorsqu’un rayon du soleil pénètre dans un endroit obscur ou ombragé.
- 6(Arachnides) Synonyme désuet de trombidion (note: l'ancien nom du genre Trombidium était Atomus).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aotme,atmoe,atoem,atomme,attome,taome
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for atome
Misspelling Variants of "atome"
Frequency rank: #15,092 in French
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Nearby French words
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