fulminate
French, noun/fyl.mi.nat/
fulminate is spelled F-U-L-M-I-N-A-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fulminate is a French masculine noun meaning “fulminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sel d’un acide non isolé, dit acide fulminique, qui détone fortement par le choc ou par la chaleur”.
What does fulminate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefulminate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sel d’un acide non isolé, dit acide fulminique, qui détone fortement par le choc ou par la chaleur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fulminate
- fulminates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fulminate?
- /fyl.mi.nat/
- \fyl.mi.nat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fulminate
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fulminate in French?
fulminate appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).