foudroie

\fu.dʁwa\

/\fu.dʁwa\/ verb

The verdict

“foudroie” is uncommon French (frequency #79,329 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,329
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foudroyer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-foudroie · foudroie · French

foudroie · rank #79,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,329
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fossilisés

Nearest frequency peer: fossilisés (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « foudroie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foudroie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for foudroie
PropertyValue
Headwordfoudroie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fu.dʁwa\
Letters8
Frequency rank#79,329
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « foudroie » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).foudroietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fossilisés » (#79,328), « fragmente » (#79,330), « forsyth » (#79,327). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « foudroie » est au #79,329. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

foudroie is uncommon French at frequency #79,329 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fu.dʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foudroie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is foudroie, spelled F-O-U-D-R-O-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foudroyer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foudroyer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de foudroyer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de foudroyer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de foudroyer.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foudroie"?
"foudroie" is spelled F-O-U-D-R-O-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fu.dʁwa\.
What does "foudroie" mean?
As a verb, "foudroie" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foudroyer.
How do you pronounce "foudroie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foudroie" is \fu.dʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foudroie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list