truce
/tɹus/noun, verb
truce is spelled T-R-U-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, truce means “A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of truce is truces.
How many letters and syllables are in truce?
| Letters | 5: T-R-U-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is truce?
Truce appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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 truce?
- UK /tɹuːs/
- US /tɹus/
- /ˈtɹʉs/
Truce has one syllable (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: En-us-truce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with truce?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as truce from its last stressed vowel (/us/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: recut, cruet.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of truce
- truces plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- trucing participle, present
- truced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does truce mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
An uneasy truce
- 2
An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.
verb
- 1
To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Truce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense period of time in which no fighting takes place:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | trêve, cessez-le-feu |
| German | Waffenstillstand, Waffenruhe |
| Portuguese | trégua, cessar-fogo |
| Spanish | tregua, inducia |
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 truce come from?
From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).