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plasmon

UK /ˈplazmɒn/noun

plasmon is spelled P-L-A-S-M-O-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plasmon means “The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of plasmon is plasmons.

How many letters and syllables are in plasmon?

Letters7: P-L-A-S-M-O-N
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 83,271st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is plasmon?

Plasmon appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st 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).

How do you pronounce plasmon?

  • UK /ˈplazmɒn/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of plasmon

  • plasmons plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does plasmon mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium.

  2. 2

    All the genetic material outside the cell nucleus.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Plasmon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quantum of waves:

LanguageWords
Frenchplasmon
GermanPlasmon
Portugueseplasmão
Spanishplasmón

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.

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