tonitruant
\tɔ.ni.tʁy.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“tonitruant” is uncommon French (frequency #66,387 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,387
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait un bruit comparable à celui du tonnerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonitruant · tonitruant · French
tonitruant · rank #66,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,387
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TNP
Nearest frequency peer: TNP (-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 « tonitruant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- titrait
titrait
33,617 corpus weight
- titrées
titrées
33,616 corpus weight
- TNP
TNP
33,615 corpus weight
- tonitruant
tonitruant
33,614 corpus weight
- tonnelle
tonnelle
33,613 corpus weight
- TPG
TPG
33,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonitruant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonitruant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔ.ni.tʁy.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonitruant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonitruant is uncommon French at frequency #66,387 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɔ.ni.tʁy.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tonitruant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tonitruant, spelled T-O-N-I-T-R-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fait un bruit comparable à celui du tonnerre.
- 2Qui occasionne un bruit retentissant.
- 3Dont la voix ou les propos sont retentissants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tonitruant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Carcan rentrait des champs ; il fut mis au courant de l’affaire et bientôt mêla son organe tonitruant aux glapissements de sa conjointe.
Le châssis grinça encore, puis, dans un crissement horripilant, le levier joua et la roue trembla et retomba dans l'eau dans un fracas tonitruant.
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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