luce
/luːs/noun
luce is a noun meaning “The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-C-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of luce is luces.
What does luce mean?
noun
- 1
The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce luce?
- UK /luːs/
- /ˈlʉs/
Luce has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-luce.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of luce
- luces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is luce?
Luce appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with luce
Sounds like: loose (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does luce come from?
From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).