scintillator
scin·til·lat·or/ˌsɪntəˈleɪtəɹ/noun
scintillator is spelled S-C-I-N-T-I-L-L-A-T-O-R, 4 syllables: scin·til·lat·or. The wrong spelling people search most is scintilator: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Scintillator is a noun meaning “Any substance that glows under the action of photons or other high-energy particles”. The plural of scintillator is scintillators.
How do you spell scintillator?
Scintillator is spelled S-C-I-N-T-I-L-L-A-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for scintillator 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 scintillator mean?
noun
- 1
Any substance that glows under the action of photons or other high-energy particles
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce scintillator?
- UK /ˌsɪntɪˈleɪtə(ɹ)/
- US /ˌsɪntəˈleɪtəɹ/
Scintillator has 4 syllables, split scin·til·lat·or in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of scintillator
- scintillators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is scintillator?
Scintillator appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Scintillator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense substance which glows under the action of high-energy particles:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | cintilador |
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 scintillator come from?
From scintillate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).