atonal
\a.tɔ.nal\
The verdict
“atonal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui utilise toutes les ressources de la gamme chromatique, tonale ou modale en écartant toute notion d’échelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atonal · atonal · French
atonal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atonal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.tɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « atonal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
atonal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.tɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui utilise toutes les ressources de la gamme chromatique, tonale ou modale en écartant toute notion d’échelle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for atonal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is atonal, spelled A-T-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui utilise toutes les ressources de la gamme chromatique, tonale ou modale en écartant toute notion d’échelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how atonal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour dignes d'intérêt qu'elles soient, les expériences de musique concrète n'ont toutefois aucune affinité avec une musique quelconque, fut-elle polyphonique, atonale ou dodécaphonique, ….
Quelques années plus tard, Le Paradis du Cœur servit de trame à une œuvre musicale d’Egon, laquelle tomba d’ailleurs à plat, l’heure de la musique atonale n’ayant pas encore sonné.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.