foudre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,830
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
foudre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Décharge électrique, par temps d’orage, entre des nuages et certaines fois entre des nuages et le sol, qui produit une vive lumière (dite éclair) et une violente détonation (dont le son est dit ton... Pronounced \fudʁ\. It ranks #7,830 in French word frequency. Often confused with four and foule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foudre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fudʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for foudre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fudʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,830 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for foudre, with forms such as "ffoudre", "fodure", and "fouddre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "four", "foule", "fours", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is foudre, spelled F-O-U-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Décharge électrique, par temps d’orage, entre des nuages et certaines fois entre des nuages et le sol, qui produit une vive lumière (dite éclair) et une violente détonation (dont le son est dit tonnerre). On dit, comme sur la photo, que la foudre est tombée quand elle a touché le sol ou quelque chose en relief sur le sol ou connecté au sol: arbre, construction, etc., a été touché.
- 2Ce qui est aussi prompt, aussi rapide, aussi destructeur que la foudre.
- 3Réprobation religieuse ; condamnation religieuse.
- 4Colère.
- 5Ornement en forme de zigzag, représentant la foudre, utilisé comme insigne de certains rangs (officiers brevetés d’état-major, en France) ou services militaires (les communications, fréquemment).
- 6masculin
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffoudre,fodure,fouddre,fouder,foudrre,fourde,fuodre,ofudre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "foudre"
Frequency rank: #7,830 in French
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