# flashlight

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/ · frequency rank #15,816

## Definitions
1. A battery-powered hand-held light source.
2. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
3. A photograph taken with a flash camera.

## Etymology
From flash + light.

## Common misspellings (17)
`falshlight`, `fflashlight`, `flahslight`, `flashhlight`, `flashilght`, `flashlgiht`, `flashligght`, `flashlighht`, `flashlightt`, `flashligth`, `flashlihgt`, `flashllight`, `flaslhight`, `flasshlight`, `fllashlight`, `flsahlight`, `lfashlight`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/flashlight