floodlight

Other forms of floodlight

plural

floodlights·

past tense or participle

floodlit

present participle

floodlighting·

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 floodlight

What does floodlight mean?

floodlight means "light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in floodlight?

floodlight has 2 syllables: flood-light. The stress falls on "flood". In IPA it is /ˈflʌdˌlaɪt/.

What is another word for floodlight?

Close synonyms include flood, flood lamp, photoflood. 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 floodlight a common word?

floodlight 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.

What rhymes with floodlight?

27 words rhyme with floodlight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.