fumarole
noun
fumarole is a noun meaning “An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-M-A-R-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fumarole is fumaroles.
What does fumarole mean?
noun
- 1
An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fumarole
- fumaroles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fumarole?
Fumarole appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Fumarole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense opening in the crust of an astronomical body that emits steam and gases:
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 fumarole come from?
Borrowed from Italian fumarola. Likely a doublet of femerell. By surface analysis, fume + -ar + -ola.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).