lighting

Other forms of lighting

plural

lightings·

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 lighting

What does lighting mean?

lighting means "having abundant light or illumination". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lighting?

lighting has 2 syllables: ligh-ting. The stress falls on "ligh". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for lighting?

Close synonyms include light, ignition, firing, kindling, inflammation. 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 lighting a common word?

lighting is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 lighting?

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