confluent
/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/adjective, noun
confluent is spelled C-O-N-F-L-U-E-N-T: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, confluent means “Converging, merging or flowing together into one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in confluent?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-F-L-U-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 77,666th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is confluent?
Confluent appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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).
How do you pronounce confluent?
- US /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/
Confluent has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-confluent.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of confluent
- more confluent comparative
- most confluent superlative
- confluents plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does confluent mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- 2
Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- 3
Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- 4
Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- 5
Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.
noun
- 1
A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does confluent come from?
From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).