flashbulb

Other forms of flashbulb

plural

flashbulbs·

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 flashbulb

What does flashbulb mean?

flashbulb means "a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph".

How many syllables are in flashbulb?

flashbulb has 2 syllables: flash-bulb. The stress falls on "flash". In IPA it is /ˈflæʃbəlb/.

What is another word for flashbulb?

Close synonyms include flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flash bulb. 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 flashbulb a common word?

flashbulb 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.