fulmine
\fyl.min\
The verdict
“fulmine” is uncommon French (frequency #71,536 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,536
- 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 fulminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fulmine · fulmine · French
fulmine · rank #71,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,536
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fugaces
Nearest frequency peer: fugaces (-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 « fulmine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fresnoy
Fresnoy
28,468 corpus weight
- frimas
frimas
28,467 corpus weight
- fugaces
fugaces
28,466 corpus weight
- fulmine
fulmine
28,465 corpus weight
- Furnes
Furnes
28,464 corpus weight
- futurisme
futurisme
28,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fulmine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fulmine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fyl.min\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fulmine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fulmine is uncommon French at frequency #71,536 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fyl.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fulmine in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fulmine, spelled F-U-L-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de fulminer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de fulminer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de fulminer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de fulminer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de fulminer.
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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