-tomie
\tɔ.mi\
The verdict
“-tomie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. 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) - Indique la coupe d’un organe, incision, une division, une section.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tomie · -tomie · French
-tomie · 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 "-" 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 | -tomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \tɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « -tomie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
-tomie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed \tɔ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Indique la coupe d’un organe, incision, une division, une section.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for -tomie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is -tomie, spelled --T-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Indique la coupe d’un organe, incision, une division, une section.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how -tomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une thoracotomie.
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.