bombe atomique
\bɔ̃.b‿a.tɔ.mik\
The verdict
“bombe atomique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Arme nucléaire utilisant la fission nucléaire pour dégager de l’énergie sous forme de chaleur, de souffle et de rayonnements ionisants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombe atomique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.b‿a.tɔ.mik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bombe atomique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bombe atomique is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃.b‿a.tɔ.mik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bombe atomique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 bombe atomique, spelled B-O-M-B-E- -A-T-O-M-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme nucléaire utilisant la fission nucléaire pour dégager de l’énergie sous forme de chaleur, de souffle et de rayonnements ionisants.
- 2Arme nucléaire, sans préjuger du mode fonctionnement (fusion ou fission).
- 3Femme très attirante.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-M-B-E- -A-T-O-M-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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