efflorescence
/ˌɛfləˈɹɛsəns/noun
efflorescence is spelled E-F-F-L-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is efflorescense: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 83 of all searches for the word. Efflorescence is a noun meaning “The production of flowers”. The plural of efflorescence is efflorescences.
How do you spell efflorescence?
Efflorescence is spelled E-F-F-L-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 84 of the searches for efflorescence 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 efflorescence mean?
noun
- 1
The production of flowers.
- 2
Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
- 3
The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
- 4
An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
- 5
An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
- 6
A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce efflorescence?
- /ˌɛfləˈɹɛsəns/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-efflorescence.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of efflorescence
- efflorescences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is efflorescence?
Efflorescence appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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).
Efflorescence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | efflorescence , irruption |
| German | Ausblühung, Effloreszenz |
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.
Where does efflorescence come from?
Borrowed from French efflorescence, from Latin efflōrēscō (from ex- (“out”) + flōrēscō (“to blossom”)) + -ence. By surface analysis, effloresce + -ence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).