Fusillade

Definition: Fusillade

Fusillade

Noun

1. Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise".

Verb

1. Attack with fusillade.

Date "fusillade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Synonyms: Fusillade

Synonyms: burst (n), salvo (n), volley (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attack	Fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer.
Killing	Massacre; fusillade, noyade; thuggery, Thuggism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fusillade

English words defined with "fusillade": burst ♦ Fusillader, Fusillading ♦ salvo ♦ volley. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fusillade" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (fusillade, gun fire, gunfight, gunshot, shoot out, shooting).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	La Fusillade en réponse � Dostoïevsky (1973)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	De fusillade : roman (reference) La fusillade de Fourmies : premier mai 1891 (reference) L'envers d'une fusillade : Fourmies, 1er mai 1891 : un patron face à la grève (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Fusillade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fusillade" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

Language		Translations for "fusillade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qëlloj me breshëri, breshëri (hail, salvo, shower, volley). (various references)

Arabic		‏هاجم بصليات نارية, ‏وابل (barrage, dash, hail, spray, torrent), ‏سيل من الأسئلة, ‏صلية نارية. (various references)

Bulgarian		разстрелвам със залп, изпращам залп. (various references)

French		fusillade. (various references)

German		Salve (burst, burst of laughter, salute, salvo, volley). (various references)

Greek		πυροβολώ ομάδον, πυροβολισμοί (gun fire), τουφεκίδι (rifle shots), ομοβροντία (broadside, volley). (various references)

Hebrew		מטר אש, ל�"מטיר יריות (rake). (various references)

Hungarian		tűzharc (firefight, shoot-out), sortüzelés, sortűz (platoon, salvo, volley, volley-firing), puskatűz (musketry). (various references)

Indonesian		brondong, berondongan (barrage, volley of gunfire). (various references)

Italian		scarica di fucili. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		斉射 (volley), 一斉射�'� (a broadside, volley firing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいしゃ (volley), いっせいしゃ�'き (a broadside, volley firing). (various references)

Manx		sheer-orraghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		usilladefay

Portuguese		fuzilaria, fuzilarada, fuzilar, passar pelas armas. (various references)

Romanian		împuşcãturã (discharge, gun fire, gun shot, report, round, shoot, shot). (various references)

Russian		обстреливать (shell, strafe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		puškaranje (firing, gunning), osuti vatrom. (various references)

Spanish		fusilar (shoot, shoot dead), fusilamiento (shooting), descarga cerrada (volley). (various references)

Swedish		salva (application, burst, embrocation, oinment, ointment, salve, salvo, unction, volley), gevärssalva (platoon), gevärseld (rifle fire), beskjuta (fire at, shell). (various references)

Thai		การระ�"มยิง. (various references)

Turkish		yaylım ateşi açmak, yaylım ateş (volley), kurşuna dizmek, infaz birliği. (various references)

Ukrainian		розстрілювати, розстріл, обстрілювати (gun, plonk, pound, punish, shell, shoot up, strafe), обстріл (cannonade, gunning, strafing). (various references)

Vietnamese		loạt súng bắn sự xử bắn sự tuôn ra h� ng tr� ng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fusillade": fusillades. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fusillade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Feuillade, fusilade, fusillage, fusille, fussilade, fusuline. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fusillade" (pronounced fyuw"sulā'd)
4	-u l ā' d	accolade, marmalade.
3	-l ā' d	downplayed, inlaid, overlaid, parlayed, relayed, switchblade, waylaid.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-l-s-u"
	-2 letters: alludes, aludels, audiles, dallies, failles, flailed, fluidal, sallied, sulfide, sullied.
	-3 letters: adieus, afield, aidful, aisled, allied, allies, allude, aludel, audile, dalles, deasil, duelli, dulias, failed, faille, falsie, faulds, felids, fellas, feudal, fields, filled, filles, flails, fluids, fulled, fusile, ideals, ladies, ladles, sailed, sulfid.
	-4 letters: adieu, aides, ailed, aisle, alefs, alifs, aside, dales, deals.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-l-s-u"
	+1 letter: fusillades.
	+4 letters: disgracefully, distastefully, sulfanilamide.
	+5 letters: sulfanilamides.
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