fluorescence
\fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“fluorescence” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,345
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propriété d’un corps fluorescent, qui brille par électro-magnétisme, par opposition à la radiescence (par radio-activité) ou la phosphorescence (par réaction chimique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fluorescence · fluorescence · French
fluorescence · rank #42,345 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,345
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flor
Nearest frequency peer: flor (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fluorescence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flamandes
flamandes
57,659 corpus weight
- flambeaux
flambeaux
57,658 corpus weight
- flor
flor
57,657 corpus weight
- fluorescence
fluorescence
57,656 corpus weight
- forer
forer
57,655 corpus weight
- forets
forets
57,654 corpus weight
What this shows « fluorescence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fluorescence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #42,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fluorescence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around fluorescence (IPA \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,345 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fluorescence, spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Propriété d’un corps fluorescent, qui brille par électro-magnétisme, par opposition à la radiescence (par radio-activité) ou la phosphorescence (par réaction chimique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fluorescence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De nombreux jaunes, par exemple, qu'ils soient d'origine naturelle (flavoniques) ou artificielle (azoïques) présentent une fluorescence non négligeable.
Aucun phénomène de fluorescence n’avait encore été observé chez un amphibien.
This word in other languages
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fluorescence - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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