translucency
noun
translucency is a noun meaning “the quality of being translucent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-U-C-E-N-C-Y, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of translucency is translucencies.
What does translucency mean?
noun
- 1
the quality of being translucent
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of translucency
- translucencies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is translucency?
Translucency appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).
Translucency in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the quality of being translucent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | translucência |
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 translucency come from?
From translucent + -ency.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).