fluoro
noun, adjective
fluoro is a noun meaning “A fluorescent light” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluoro is fluoros.
What does fluoro mean?
noun
- 1
AustraliacolloquialA fluorescent light.
adjective
- 1
AustraliaFluorescent.
And yes, as he peers beyond a boulder, down in the hollow he can make out two figures in khaki moving around a fluoro orange tent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluoro?
- US
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-fluoro-.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-fluoro-.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fluoro
- fluor-
- fluoros plural
- more fluoro comparative
- most fluoro superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluoro?
Fluoro appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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).