phosphorescent
\fɔs.fɔ.ʁɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“phosphorescent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,025 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,025
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui possède la propriété appelée la phosphorescence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phosphorescent · phosphorescent · French
phosphorescent · rank #90,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,025
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phong
Nearest frequency peer: phong (-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 « phosphorescent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Petry
Petry
9,979 corpus weight
- philologues
philologues
9,978 corpus weight
- phong
phong
9,977 corpus weight
- phosphoresc…
phosphorescent
9,976 corpus weight
- photoshoot
photoshoot
9,975 corpus weight
- phénols
phénols
9,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phosphorescent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phosphorescent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔs.fɔ.ʁɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #90,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phosphorescent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phosphorescent is uncommon French at frequency #90,025 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔs.fɔ.ʁɛ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for phosphorescent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is phosphorescent, spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-E-S-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui possède la propriété appelée la phosphorescence.
- 2Brillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phosphorescent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureusement que nous vivons dans un temps où l’on a pu mieux observer que Gentil et Forster ; et que nous savons que le brasillement de la mer est causé par des millions d’animaux phosphorescents.
La trotteuse du chronographe sautillait sur les points phosphorescents avec une horripilante lenteur. Elle finit tout de même par s’immobiliser au-dessus du chiffre douze […]
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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