jacklight

Questions about jacklight

What does jacklight mean?

jacklight means "a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jacklight?

jacklight has 2 syllables and divides as jac-klight under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jacklight?

Close synonyms include jack. 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 jacklight a common word?

jacklight 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.