subatomique
\sy.ba.tɔ.mik\
The verdict
“subatomique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus petit que l’atome, relatif aux dimensions inférieures à celle d’un atome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subatomique · subatomique · French
subatomique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | subatomique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.ba.tɔ.mik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
subatomique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.ba.tɔ.mik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plus petit que l’atome, relatif aux dimensions inférieures à celle d’un atome.".
subatomique has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 subatomique, spelled S-U-B-A-T-O-M-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Plus petit que l’atome, relatif aux dimensions inférieures à celle d’un atome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subatomique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées.
Des mômes qui avaient jusque-là connu des scolarités sans problème se retrouvaient tout à coup réduits à des notes subatomiques.
This word in other languages
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.