fulgurance
\fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“fulgurance” is uncommon French (frequency #83,900 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,900
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est fulgurant, de ce qui a l’éclat, la brillance de la foudre, fulguration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fulgurance · fulgurance · French
fulgurance · rank #83,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,900
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fulgurants
Nearest frequency peer: fulgurants (+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 « fulgurance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- friables
friables
16,104 corpus weight
- fricassée
fricassée
16,103 corpus weight
- fulgurance
fulgurance
16,101 corpus weight
- fulgurants
fulgurants
16,100 corpus weight
- funambules
funambules
16,099 corpus weight
- galeuses
galeuses
16,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fulgurance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fulgurance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fulgurance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fulgurance is uncommon French at frequency #83,900 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fulgurance, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fulgurance, spelled F-U-L-G-U-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est fulgurant, de ce qui a l’éclat, la brillance de la foudre, fulguration.
- 2Ce qui est brillant, lumineux, ce qui frappe les esprits par sa rapidité et sa vivacité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fulgurance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fulgurances du bouquet final furent saluées par des salves d’applaudissements.
La fulgurance de son œuvre a marqué ses contemporains.
This word in other languages
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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