moonlight

Other forms of moonlight

plural

moonlights·

past tense

moonlighted·

present participle

moonlighting·

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 moonlight

What does moonlight mean?

moonlight means "the light of the Moon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moonlight?

moonlight has 2 syllables: moon-light. The stress falls on "moon". In IPA it is /ˈmunˌlaɪt/.

What is another word for moonlight?

Close synonyms include moonshine, Moon. 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 moonlight a common word?

moonlight 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 moonlight?

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