fluorophore
noun
fluorophore is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-P-H-O-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is flurophore: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Fluorophore is a noun meaning “A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence”. The plural of fluorophore is fluorophores.
How do you spell fluorophore?
Fluorophore is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-P-H-O-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for fluorophore 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 fluorophore mean?
noun
- 1
A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluorophore
- fluorophores plural
- fluorophor
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorophore?
Fluorophore appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Fluorophore in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense molecule capable of fluorescence:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fluorophore |
| German | Fluorophor |
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 fluorophore come from?
From fluoro- + -phore.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).