chemiluminescence
noun
chemiluminescence is spelled C-H-E-M-I-L-U-M-I-N-E-S-C-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is chemiluminesence: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Chemiluminescence is a noun meaning “The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction”. The plural of chemiluminescence is chemiluminescences.
How do you spell chemiluminescence?
Chemiluminescence is spelled C-H-E-M-I-L-U-M-I-N-E-S-C-E-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for chemiluminescence in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does chemiluminescence mean?
noun
- 1
The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chemiluminescence?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-chemiluminescene.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chemiluminescence
- chemiluminescences plural
- chemoluminescence
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chemiluminescence?
Chemiluminescence appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Chemiluminescence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chimiluminescence |
| German | Chemilumineszenz, Chemolumineszenz |
| Portuguese | quimioluminescência |
| Spanish | quimioluminiscencia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.