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autofluorescence

noun

autofluorescence is spelled A-U-T-O-F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E: 16 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, autofluorescence means “Self-induced fluorescence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of autofluorescence is autofluorescences.

How many letters and syllables are in autofluorescence?

Letters16: A-U-T-O-F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is autofluorescence?

Autofluorescence appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of autofluorescence

  • autofluorescences plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does autofluorescence mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Self-induced fluorescence.

  2. 2

    The fluorescence of substances other than the fluorophore of interest.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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