fulgurant
\fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“fulgurant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,819
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui produit des éclairs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fulgurant · fulgurant · French
fulgurant · rank #38,819 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,819
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frauduleuses
Nearest frequency peer: frauduleuses (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fulgurant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- formaliser
formaliser
61,186 corpus weight
- fourgons
fourgons
61,185 corpus weight
- frauduleuses
frauduleuses
61,183 corpus weight
- fulgurant
fulgurant
61,182 corpus weight
- fuyait
fuyait
61,181 corpus weight
- GF
GF
61,178 corpus weight
What this shows « fulgurant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fulgurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fulgurant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around fulgurant (IPA \fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,819 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for fulgurant, with forms such as "ffulgurant", "flugurant", and "fuglurant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fulgurante", "figurant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fulgurant, spelled F-U-L-G-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui produit des éclairs.
- 2Qui est rapide comme l'éclair.
- 3Qui éblouit comme l'éclair.
- 4Qualifie certaines douleurs très intenses, soudaines et brèves.
- 5Qui frappe l'esprit ou l'imagination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fulgurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un orage fulgurant. — Un bolide fulgurant.
Grâce à Google Maps, qui permet de localiser et de visualiser la moindre adresse, grâce au développement des moteurs de recherche locaux et à la progression fulgurante de la téléphonie mobile, le numérique « réenchante » la publicité locale, hyperciblée, et partant, une presse régionale que l’on avait crue plus fragile encore que sa grande sœur nationale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffulgurant
- flugurant
- fuglurant
- fulggurant
- fulgruant
- fulguarnt
- fulgurannt
- fulgurantt
- fulguratn
- fulgurnat
- fulgurrant
- fullgurant
- fulugrant
- uflgurant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fulgurant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).