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traduce

/tɹəˈdus/verb

traduce is spelled T-R-A-D-U-C-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, traduce means “To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in traduce?

Letters7: T-R-A-D-U-C-E
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is traduce?

Traduce appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).

How do you pronounce traduce?

  • UK /tɹəˈdjuːs/
  • UK /tɹəˈdʒuːs/
  • US /tɹəˈdus/

Traduce has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-traduce.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with traduce?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as traduce from its last stressed vowel (/us/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: curated.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of traduce

  • traduces present, singular, he/she/it
  • traducing participle, present
  • traduced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does traduce mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

  2. 2

    archaicTo pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

  3. 3

    archaicTo pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Traduce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcalomnier, diffamer (to malign by making malicious and false or…), traduire (to pass into another form of expression)
Germanverleumden (to malign by making malicious and false or…)
Spanishcalumniar, difamar (to malign by making malicious and false or…), traducir (to pass into another form of expression), legar (to pass on; to transmit)
Portuguesetraduzir (to pass into another form of expression)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does traduce come from?

From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to lead”). Doublet of transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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