foudroyant
/fuˈdɹɔɪənt/adjective
foudroyant is an adjective meaning “Having an awesome and overwhelming effect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-D-R-O-Y-A-N-T, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foudroyant mean?
adjective
- 1
Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
- 2
fulminant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foudroyant?
- /fuˈdɹɔɪənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-foudroyant.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of foudroyant
- more foudroyant comparative
- most foudroyant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foudroyant?
Foudroyant appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does foudroyant come from?
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).