atrium

/\a.tʁi.jɔm\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,256

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

atrium is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce principale pourvue d’un toit ouvert, généralement entourée d’un portique, et sur laquelle donnaient les autres pièces de la maison. Pronounced \a.tʁi.jɔm\.

Key facts for atrium
PropertyValue
Headwordatrium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.tʁi.jɔm\
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,256
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for atrium is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tʁi.jɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,256 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for atrium, with forms such as "artium", "atirum", and "atrimu". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 atrium, spelled A-T-R-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce principale pourvue d’un toit ouvert, généralement entourée d’un portique, et sur laquelle donnaient les autres pièces de la maison.
  2. 2
    Cour intérieure couverte ou non, ou pièce à l’éclairage zénithal.
  3. 3
    Oreillette dans la nouvelle nomenclature ; chacune des deux cavités du cœur qui sont placées au-dessus des deux ventricules.
  4. 4
    D’une façon plus générale, pouvait désigner une cavité de remplissage d’un organe.
  5. 5
    Aire de protection et d’immunité autour d’une église (de 30 ou de 50 pas) au Moyen Âge en Occident.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: artium,atirum,atrimu,atriumm,atrrium,atruim,attrium,tarium

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for atrium

Misspelling Variants of "atrium"

artium6atirum6atrimu6atriumm7atrrium7atruim6attrium7tarium6
Misspelling Variants of "atrium"

Frequency rank: #36,256 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "atrium"?
"atrium" is spelled A-T-R-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tʁi.jɔm\.
What does "atrium" mean?
As a noun, "atrium" means: Pièce principale pourvue d’un toit ouvert, généralement entourée d’un portique, et sur laquelle donnaient les autres pièces de la maison.
What are common misspellings of "atrium"?
Common misspellings include "artium", "atirum", "atrimu", "atriumm", "atrrium". The correct spelling is "atrium".
How do you pronounce "atrium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "atrium" is \a.tʁi.jɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "atrium" come from?
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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.