foudroyant
German, adjective[fudro̯aˈjant]
foudroyant is spelled F-O-U-D-R-O-Y-A-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written German, the 571,872nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foudroyant is a German adjective meaning “fulminant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “plötzlich beginnend, heftig und schnell verlaufend, hauptsächlich in Zusammenhang mit (Infektions-)Krankheiten”.
What does foudroyant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fulminant
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. plötzlich beginnend, heftig und schnell verlaufend, hauptsächlich in Zusammenhang mit (Infektions-)Krankheiten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of foudroyant
- foudroyanter masculine nominative singular
- foudroyante feminine nominative singular
- foudroyantes neuter nominative singular
- foudroyanten genitive masculine singular
- foudroyantem dative masculine singular
- der foudroyante definite includes-article masculine
- die foudroyante definite feminine includes-article
- das foudroyante definite includes-article neuter
- die foudroyanten definite includes-article nominative
- des foudroyanten definite genitive includes-article
- der foudroyanten definite feminine genitive
- dem foudroyanten dative definite includes-article
- den foudroyanten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foudroyant?
- [fudro̯aˈjant]
- [fudʁo̯aˈjant]
- [fudʁo̯aˈjɑ̃ː]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is foudroyant in German?
foudroyant appears about once in every 83 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).