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fleshlight

flesh·light/ˈflɛʃˌlaɪ̯t/noun

fleshlight is a noun meaning “A vagina-, anus-, or mouth-shaped sex toy which is designed to stimulate and fit around the penis to aid masturbation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-S-H-L-I-G-H-T and has 2 syllables (flesh·light), and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fleshlight is fleshlights.

What does fleshlight mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A vagina-, anus-, or mouth-shaped sex toy which is designed to stimulate and fit around the penis to aid masturbation.

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

How do you pronounce fleshlight?

  • /ˈflɛʃˌlaɪ̯t/
  • [ˈflɛʃˌlaɪ̯t]
  • /ˈflɛʃˌlɐɪ̯t/

Fleshlight has 2 syllables, split flesh·light in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fleshlight.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fleshlight

  • fleshlights plural

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

How common is fleshlight?

Fleshlight appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 73,203rd 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).

Fleshlight in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense artificial vagina-shaped sex toy:

LanguageWords
GermanTaschenmuschi

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 fleshlight come from?

Genericized trademark, blend of flesh + flashlight.

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