confluent
/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/
"confluent" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“confluent” is an uncommon English word, ranked #77,551 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #77,551
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confluent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “confluent” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for confluent is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,551 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
confluent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō. The correct English form is confluent, spelled C-O-N-F-L-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- 2Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- 3Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- 4Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- 5Given 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.
Etymology
From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “confluent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-F-L-U-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.