flashgun
noun
flashgun is a noun meaning “An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-S-H-G-U-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flashgun is flashguns.
What does flashgun mean?
noun
- 1
An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb.
- 2
Any similar unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flashgun?
Flashgun has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flashgun
- flashguns plural
- flash gun
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flashgun?
Flashgun appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).
Flashgun in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | flash (photographique) |
| German | Blitzlicht |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does flashgun come from?
From flash + gun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).