Spelling
Flourescent or fluorescent?
Fluorescent is the right spelling. Flourescent is a common misspelling of it.
FLOURESCENT swaps U and O.
Why people write FLOURESCENT
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
It starts with FLUOR, like fluoride.
How often FLUORESCENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), FLOURESCENT appears 42 times for every 1,000 FLUORESCENT, about once for every 24 correct uses.
Is FLOURESCENT a word?
No. FLOURESCENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. FLUORESCENT is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What fluorescent means
adjective: Emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source.
More words with the same mistake
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