fluorocarbon
noun
fluorocarbon is a noun meaning “Any derivative of a hydrocarbon in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by fluorine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-C-A-R-B-O-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluorocarbon is fluorocarbons.
What does fluorocarbon mean?
noun
- 1
Any derivative of a hydrocarbon in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by fluorine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluorocarbon?
Fluorocarbon 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).
Forms of fluorocarbon
- fluorocarbons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorocarbon?
Fluorocarbon 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).
Fluorocarbon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hydrocarbon derivative:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fluorocarbone |
| Spanish | fluorocarburo |
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 fluorocarbon come from?
From fluoro- + carbon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).