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Ambiguous terminations
- incipience, -ent
- incumbency,-ent
- independence
- independent
- indolence, -ent
- inference
- inherence, -ent
- intermittent
- iridescence, -ent
- lambent
- latency, -ent
- leniency, -ent
- magniloquence
- magniloquent
- malevolence,-ent
- mellifluence, -ent
- mollient
- obedience, -ent
- occurrence, -ent
- omniscience, -ent
- opulence, -ency
- opulent
- patience, -ent
- pendency
- pendent (adj.)
- penitence, -ent
- permanence
- permanency
- permanent
- pertinence, -ent
- pestilence, -ent
- poculent
- portent
- potency, -ent
- precedence, -ent
- preference
- prescience, -ent
- presence, -ent
- presidency, -ent
- proficiency, -ent
- prominence, -ent
- proponent
- providence, -ent
- prudence, -ent
- purulence, -ent
- quintessence
- recurrence, -ent
- reference
- refluence, -ent
- repellent
- residence, -ency
- resident
- resolvent
- resplendence
- resplendent
- respondent
- reverence, -ent
- sentient
- solvency, -ent
- somnolency, -ent
- subserviency
- subservient
- subsidence, -ency
- subsistence, -ent
- succulent
- superintendence
- superintendency
- superintendent
- tendence, -ency
- transcendence
- transcendency
- transcendent
- transference
- transient
- transparency
- transparent
- transplendency
- transplendent
- turbulence, -ent
- vicegerency, -ent
- virulence, -ent
With few exceptions, words not found in the above list should end in -ance, -ancy, or -ant.
