fulgurite
noun
fulgurite is a noun meaning “Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-G-U-R-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fulgurite is fulgurites.
What does fulgurite mean?
noun
- 1
Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fulgurite
- fulgurites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fulgurite?
Fulgurite appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).
Fulgurite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense glass formed by lightning:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fulgurite |
| Portuguese | fulgurito |
| Spanish | fulgurita |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fulgurite come from?
From Latin fulgur + -ite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).