transparency
trans·par·en·cy/tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/noun
transparency is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-A-R-E-N-C-Y, 4 syllables: trans·par·en·cy. The wrong spelling people search most is transparancy: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Transparency is a noun meaning “The quality of being transparent”. The plural of transparency is transparencies.
How many letters and syllables are in transparency?
| Letters | 12: T-R-A-N-S-P-A-R-E-N-C-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: trans·par·en·cy |
| In writing | 7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, transparancy, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 transparency?
Transparency is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-A-R-E-N-C-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for transparency 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 transparency?
Transparency appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 transparency?
- UK /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/
- UK /tɹænzˈpæɹənsi/
- US /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/
Transparency has 4 syllables, split trans·par·en·cy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-transparency.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-transparency.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-transparency.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of transparency
- transparencies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does transparency mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality of being transparent.
- 2
Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
- 3
A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
- 4
A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
- 5
Something transparent.
- 6
Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Transparency in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | transparence |
| German | Durchsichtigkeit, Transparenz |
| Portuguese | transparência , acetato |
| Spanish | transparencia |
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 transparency come from?
Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārentia, equivalent to transparent + -cy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).