fluoridation
noun
fluoridation is a noun meaning “The act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-I-D-A-T-I-O-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluoridation is fluoridations.
What does fluoridation mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluoridation?
- US
Fluoridation has 4 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)-Flame,_not_lame-fluoridation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fluoridation
- fluoridations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluoridation?
Fluoridation appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd 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).
Fluoridation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fluoretação |
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.