headlight

Other forms of headlight

plural

headlights·

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 headlight

What does headlight mean?

headlight means "a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive".

How many syllables are in headlight?

headlight has 2 syllables: head-light. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdˌlaɪt/.

What is another word for headlight?

Close synonyms include headlamp. 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 headlight a common word?

headlight is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 headlight?

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