# Florence

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈflɒɹəns/ · frequency rank #7,563

## Definitions
1. A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy.
2. A metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence.
3. A former province of Tuscany.
4. A female given name from Latin.
5. A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
6. A suburb of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
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37. A medieval and early modern republic centered on the city of Florence in Italy that existed from 1115 to 1185 and from 1197 to 1569 when the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was formed.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French Florence f, from Latin Flōrentia (as a given name, a feminine form of Flōrentius), from flōrens (“flowering, flourishing”), from flōs (“flower”), connected with English bloom and blossom. Doublet of Firenze.
The female given name gained popularity from Florence Nightingale who was born in the Tuscan city.

## Common misspellings (13)
`fflorence`, `fllorence`, `floernce`, `florance`, `florecne`, `florencce`, `florenec`, `florennce`, `flornece`, `florrence`, `flroence`, `folrence`, `lforence`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/florence