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translucence

noun

translucence is a noun meaning “the state of being translucent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-U-C-E-N-C-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of translucence is translucences.

What does translucence mean?

noun

  1. 1

    the state of being translucent

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

Forms of translucence

  • translucences plural

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

How common is translucence?

Translucence appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).

Where does translucence come from?

From Middle English translucence, from Medieval Latin trānslūcentia.

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