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blacklight

noun

blacklight is spelled B-L-A-C-K-L-I-G-H-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blacklight means “Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blacklight is blacklights.

How many letters and syllables are in blacklight?

Letters10: B-L-A-C-K-L-I-G-H-T
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is blacklight?

Blacklight appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with blacklight

Also written: black light (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of blacklight

  • blacklights plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blacklight mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does blacklight come from?

From black + light.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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