fluency B2 Topic:Communication US /ˈfluːənsi/ See IPA manual Freq #86505 Meanings 1 noun The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily. Years of practice gave her real fluency in Spanish. 2 noun The ability to do something smoothly and skilfully, with little effort. The team struggled for fluency early in the game. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the ability to speak or... articulateness Word family Forms fluencies Derived forms disfluencydysfluencynonfluencyoverfluency Etymology AI details From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence. fluentia la-lat View etymology graph -> Topics Communication External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # fluency **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈfluːənsi/ **Frequency rank:** 86505 ## Meanings 1. The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily. 2. The ability to do something smoothly and skilfully, with little effort. ## Examples - Years of practice gave her real fluency in Spanish. - The team struggled for fluency early in the game. ## Derived Forms - disfluency - dysfluency - nonfluency - overfluency ## Roots and Affixes - Root: fluentia - Affix: -cy - state ## Etymology From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence. ## AI Etymology Fluency comes from Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence. In current use, the main senses are “The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily” and “The ability to do something smoothly and skilfully, with little effort”. ## Topics - Communication markdown