thundershower
noun
thundershower is a noun meaning “A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-H-O-W-E-R and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thundershower is thundershowers.
What does thundershower mean?
noun
- 1
A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thundershower?
Thundershower has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thundershower
- thundershowers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thundershower?
Thundershower appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
How do you abbreviate thundershower?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of thundershower: tshwr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does thundershower come from?
From thunder + shower.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).