fanlight

Other forms of fanlight

plural

fanlights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fanlight

What does fanlight mean?

fanlight means "a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fanlight?

fanlight has 2 syllables: fan-light. The stress falls on "fan".

What is another word for fanlight?

Close synonyms include transom, transom window, skylight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fanlight a common word?

fanlight 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.