fosforescente

/[fosfoɾeˈsẽn̪t̪e]/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#87,851

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fosforescente is anSpanishadj. It means: Propiedad de origen químico, de un cuerpo o sustancia de absorber energía y emitirla como luz Pronounced [fosfoɾeˈsẽn̪t̪e].

Key facts for fosforescente
PropertyValue
Headwordfosforescente
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[fosfoɾeˈsẽn̪t̪e]
Letters13
Frequency rank#87,851
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fosforescente in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for fosforescente is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fosfoɾeˈsẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,851 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Propiedad de origen químico, de un cuerpo o sustancia de absorber energía y emitirla como luz".

No misspelling variants are generated for fosforescente in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is fosforescente, spelled F-O-S-F-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propiedad de origen químico, de un cuerpo o sustancia de absorber energía y emitirla como luz

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #87,851 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fosforescente"?
"fosforescente" is spelled F-O-S-F-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [fosfoɾeˈsẽn̪t̪e].
What does "fosforescente" mean?
As an adj, "fosforescente" means: Propiedad de origen químico, de un cuerpo o sustancia de absorber energía y emitirla como luz
How do you pronounce "fosforescente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fosforescente" is [fosfoɾeˈsẽn̪t̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fosforescente" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.