tornadic
adjective
tornadic is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a tornado” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-O-R-N-A-D-I-C and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does tornadic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a tornado.
tornadic destruction
- 2
Having the ability to produce a tornado.
a tornadic thunderstorm
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tornadic?
Tornadic has 3 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 tornadic
- more tornadic comparative
- most tornadic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tornadic?
Tornadic appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Tornadic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having the ability to produce a tornado:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tornadique |
| Spanish | tornádico |
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 tornadic come from?
From tornado + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).