noctilucent

1. 1.

   shining or glowing by night

   “the noctilucent eyes of a cat”

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Questions about noctilucent

What does noctilucent mean?

noctilucent means "shining or glowing by night".

How many syllables are in noctilucent?

noctilucent has 4 syllables and divides as noc-ti-lu-cent under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is noctilucent a common word?

noctilucent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.