foudroie
\fu.dʁwa\
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
- forniquer
forniquer
20,675 corpus weight
- forsyth
forsyth
20,674 corpus weight
- fossilisés
fossilisés
20,673 corpus weight
- foudroie
foudroie
20,672 corpus weight
- fragmente
fragmente
20,671 corpus weight
- fraisiers
fraisiers
20,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foudroie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foudroie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fu.dʁwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foudroie » en français
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
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foudroyer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foudroyer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de foudroyer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de foudroyer.
- 5Deuxième 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.
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