fluorescência

//flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ// noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#58,518

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fluorescência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X Pronounced /flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/.

Key facts for fluorescência
PropertyValue
Headwordfluorescência
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/
Letters13
Frequency rank#58,518
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fluorescência in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for fluorescência is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,518 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X".

No misspelling variants are generated for fluorescência in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 Portuguese form is fluorescência, spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #58,518 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fluorescência"?
"fluorescência" is spelled F-L-U-O-R-E-S-C-Ê-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/.
What does "fluorescência" mean?
As a noun, "fluorescência" means: capacidade de uma substância de emitir luz quando exposta a radiações do tipo ultravioleta (UV), raios catódicos ou raios X
How do you pronounce "fluorescência"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fluorescência" is /flwu.ɾɨʃ.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.