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“Luster” or “Lustre”

Luster is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while lustre is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

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Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 3 prefer “luster” and 7 prefer “lustre”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country luster lustre Preference
United States 72 28 “luster”
United Kingdom 31 69 “lustre”
India 44 56 “lustre”
Philippines 13 87 “lustre”
Canada 35 65 “lustre”
Australia 27 73 “lustre”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 46 54 “lustre”
New Zealand 29 71 “lustre”
Jamaica 70 30 “luster”
Trinidad & Tobago 63 37 “luster”
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“luster”

  • …flat and have a vitreous luster.
  • Albert T. Luster, an African-American man who had…
  • It has a vitreous, pearly luster and a refractive index of…
  • It has a dark, vitreous luster, a specific gravity of 2.48…
  • …glaze, with decorations in brown luster or blue and back underglaze.
  • …Shield Owl pigeon (= Aachen Luster Shield, ELFP-No.
  • …golden yellow with a metallic luster.
  • …lost some of its touristic luster with the loss of their…
  • Luster Appearance of a coin's ability…
  • …fibrous crystals with a vitreous luster.

“lustre”

  • …that sugarcane had lost its lustre.
  • …ribs still retaining their white lustre.
  • …OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3, Kudu, Lustre file system, or a custom…
  • …acid fumes achieve more brilliant lustre and light effects.
  • …name, it has a lack lustre beginning, but will soon rise…
  • After Lustre was dropped by A&M Records,…
  • Lustre (file system)
  • …network access and hosting a Lustre filesystem layered over several RAID
  • …3rd century AD, although true lustre technology probably began sometime between…
  • Nadine Lustre

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