fluorosis
noun
fluorosis is a noun meaning “Any adverse condition due to an excess of fluoride” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluorosis is fluoroses.
What does fluorosis mean?
noun
- 1
Any adverse condition due to an excess of fluoride.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluorosis
- fluoroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorosis?
Fluorosis appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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).
Fluorosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any adverse condition due to an excess of fluoride:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fluorose |
| Portuguese | fluorose |
| Spanish | fluorosis |
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 fluorosis come from?
From fluor- + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).