fluorescentes
\fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“fluorescentes” is uncommon French (frequency #70,655 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,655
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fluorescent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fluorescentes · fluorescentes · French
fluorescentes · rank #70,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,655
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH florissants
Nearest frequency peer: florissants (-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 « fluorescentes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filial
filial
29,350 corpus weight
- flocage
flocage
29,348 corpus weight
- florissants
florissants
29,347 corpus weight
- fluorescent…
fluorescentes
29,346 corpus weight
- Fortunat
Fortunat
29,344 corpus weight
- fraie
fraie
29,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fluorescentes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fluorescentes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fluorescentes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fluorescentes is uncommon French at frequency #70,655 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fluorescent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fluorescentes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fluorescentes, spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fluorescent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fluorescentes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mêmes bactéries peuvent désestérifier le diacétate de fluorescéine activement et ainsi libérer la fluorescéine, qui reste préférentiellement dans les bactéries vivantes et les rend ainsi fluorescentes.
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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