atome

/\a.tom\/ noun

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.

Key facts for atome
PropertyValue
Headwordatome
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.tom\
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,092
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of atome in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Composant de la matière, plus petite partie d’un corps simple pouvant se combiner avec une autre.
  2. 2
    Énergie nucléaire.
  3. 3
    Pour exprimer l’extrême petitesse de certains corps relativement à d’autres, ou à l’espace dans lequel ils existent.
  4. 4
    Corps regardé comme indivisible, à cause de son extrême petitesse.
  5. 5
    Grains 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. 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"

aotme5atmoe5atoem5atomme6attome6taome5
Misspelling Variants of "atome"

Frequency rank: #15,092 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "atome"?
"atome" is spelled A-T-O-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tom\.
What does "atome" mean?
As a noun, "atome" means: Composant de la matière, plus petite partie d’un corps simple pouvant se combiner avec une autre.
What words are commonly confused with "atome"?
"atome" is commonly confused with "atos", "avoué", "atout". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "atome"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "atome" is \a.tom\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "atome" come from?
"atome" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.