fluorescence

/\fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#42,345

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fluorescence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Propriété d’un corps fluorescent, qui brille par électro-magnétisme, par opposition à la radiescence (par radio-activité) ou la phosphorescence (par réaction chimique). Pronounced \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\.

Key facts for fluorescence
PropertyValue
Headwordfluorescence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\
Letters12
Frequency rank#42,345
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fluorescence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fluorescence is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,345 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Propriété d’un corps fluorescent, qui brille par électro-magnétisme, par opposition à la radiescence (par radio-activité) ou la phosphorescence (par réaction chimique).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for fluorescence, with forms such as "ffluorescence", "flluorescence", and "flourescence". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 French form is fluorescence, spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propriété d’un corps fluorescent, qui brille par électro-magnétisme, par opposition à la radiescence (par radio-activité) ou la phosphorescence (par réaction chimique).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffluorescence,flluorescence,flourescence,fluoerscence,fluorecsence,fluoresccence,fluorescecne,fluorescencce,fluorescenec,fluorescennce,fluorescnece,fluoresecnce,fluoresscence,fluorrescence,fluorsecence,fluroescence,fulorescence,lfuorescence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fluorescence

Misspelling Variants of "fluorescence"

ffluorescence13flluorescence13flourescence12fluoerscence12fluorecsence12fluoresccence13fluorescecne12fluorescencce13
Misspelling Variants of "fluorescence"

Frequency rank: #42,345 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fluorescence"?
"fluorescence" is spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\.
What does "fluorescence" mean?
As a noun, "fluorescence" means: Propriété d’un corps fluorescent, qui brille par électro-magnétisme, par opposition à la radiescence (par radio-activité) ou la phosphorescence (par réaction chimique).
What are common misspellings of "fluorescence"?
Common misspellings include "ffluorescence", "flluorescence", "flourescence", "fluoerscence", "fluorecsence". The correct spelling is "fluorescence".
How do you pronounce "fluorescence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fluorescence" is \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fluorescence" 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.