floodlight
"floodlight" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“floodlight” is uncommon English (frequency #82,301 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,301
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
Corpus desk
Index EN-floodlight · floodlight · English
floodlight · rank #82,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,301
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH floorboard
Nearest frequency peer: floorboard (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “floodlight”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- finca
finca
17,705 corpus weight
- finial
finial
17,704 corpus weight
- Finucane
Finucane
17,703 corpus weight
- floodlight
floodlight
17,700 corpus weight
- floorboard
floorboard
17,699 corpus weight
- footmen
footmen
17,695 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “floodlight” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | floodlight |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “floodlight” in English
Rare enough to double-check
floodlight is uncommon English at frequency #82,301 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for floodlight, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flood + light. The correct English form is floodlight, spelled F-L-O-O-D-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
- 2Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.
Etymology
From flood + light.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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