transillumination
noun
transillumination is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-L-L-U-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is transilumination: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Transillumination is a noun meaning “A shining through (something)”. The plural of transillumination is transilluminations.
How many letters and syllables are in transillumination?
| Letters | 17: T-R-A-N-S-I-L-L-U-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, transilumination, about 10 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 transillumination?
Transillumination is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-L-L-U-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for transillumination 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 transillumination?
Transillumination appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 transillumination?
Transillumination has 6 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).
Forms of transillumination
- transilluminations plural
- translumination
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does transillumination mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A shining through (something).
- 2
The examination of a body part, or a tissue sample, by shining light through it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does transillumination come from?
From trans- + illumination.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).