transcendent
/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/adjective, noun
transcendent is spelled T-R-A-N-S-C-E-N-D-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is trancendent: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Transcendent is an adjective meaning “Surpassing usual limits”.
How many letters and syllables are in transcendent?
| Letters | 12: T-R-A-N-S-C-E-N-D-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, trancendent, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell transcendent?
Transcendent is spelled T-R-A-N-S-C-E-N-D-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for transcendent in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is transcendent?
Transcendent appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th 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 transcendent?
- /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/
Transcendent has 3 syllables (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-transcendent.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of transcendent
- more transcendent comparative
- most transcendent superlative
- transcendents plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does transcendent mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Surpassing usual limits.
- 2
Supreme in excellence.
- 3
Beyond the range of usual perception.
- 4
Free from constraints of the material world.
noun
- 1
That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does transcendent come from?
From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).