tsunami
French, noun/tsy.na.mi/
tsunami is spelled T-S-U-N-A-M-I (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tsunami is a French masculine noun meaning “tsunami” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Énorme vague causée par un évènement géologique comme un séisme ou une éruption volcanique ou astronomique…”.
What does tsunami mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetsunami
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Énorme vague causée par un évènement géologique comme un séisme ou une éruption volcanique ou astronomique comme un météorite. 2. Afflux, mouvement important et spontané.
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 tsunami
- tsunamis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tsunami?
- /tsy.na.mi/
- /tsu.na.mi/
- \tsu.na.mi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tsunami
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tsunami in French?
tsunami appears 2.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).