lightbulb

Other forms of lightbulb

plural

lightbulbs·

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 lightbulb

What does lightbulb mean?

lightbulb means "electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity".

How many syllables are in lightbulb?

lightbulb has 2 syllables: light-bulb. The stress falls on "light". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪtˌbʌlb/.

What is another word for lightbulb?

Close synonyms include light bulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric light, electric-light 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 lightbulb a common word?

lightbulb 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 lightbulb?

1 word rhymes with lightbulb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.