fluorescência
/flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“fluorescência” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,518 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,518
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X
Corpus desk
Index PT-fluorescencia · fluorescência · Portuguese
fluorescência · rank #58,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,518
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fortificado
Nearest frequency peer: fortificado (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “fluorescência”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- existencial…
existencialismo
41,499 corpus weight
- feiura
feiura
41,494 corpus weight
- fibromialgia
fibromialgia
41,490 corpus weight
- fluorescênc…
fluorescência
41,483 corpus weight
- fortificado
fortificado
41,482 corpus weight
- fractal
fractal
41,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fluorescência” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fluorescência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fluorescência” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fluorescência is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,518 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fluorescência, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is fluorescência, spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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