fluence
\fly.ɑ̃s\
The verdict
“fluence” is uncommon French (frequency #89,726 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,726
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de ce qui coule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fluence · fluence · French
fluence · rank #89,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,726
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flirtait
Nearest frequency peer: flirtait (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fluence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- firma
firma
10,279 corpus weight
- fissile
fissile
10,278 corpus weight
- flirtait
flirtait
10,276 corpus weight
- fluence
fluence
10,275 corpus weight
- formions
formions
10,272 corpus weight
- fouilla
fouilla
10,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fluence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fluence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fly.ɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fluence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fluence is uncommon French at frequency #89,726 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fly.ɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fluence, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fluence, spelled F-L-U-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action de ce qui coule.
- 2Fluidité, clarté d’un propos.
- 3Intégrale d’une densité de flux de particules sur un intervalle de temps donné.
- 4Quotient, en un point donné, du nombre de particules qui pénètrent, en un intervalle de temps donné, dans une petite sphère centrée en ce point, par l’aire du grand cercle de cette sphère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fluence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est vraiment un bon orateur, quelle fluence !
On commencera par un examen de la fluence, puis de la prosodie, enfin de la qualité du langage parlé, avant de s’intéresser à d’autres fonctions, en particulier la compréhension, la nomination, puis la lecture et l’écriture.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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