floodlit
"floodlit" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“floodlit” is uncommon English (frequency #86,282 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,282
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lit by floodlights.
Corpus desk
Index EN-floodlit · floodlit · English
floodlit · rank #86,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,282
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flummoxed
Nearest frequency peer: flummoxed (+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 “floodlit”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- firetruck
firetruck
13,723 corpus weight
- firman
firman
13,722 corpus weight
- flashmob
flashmob
13,721 corpus weight
- floodlit
floodlit
13,719 corpus weight
- flummoxed
flummoxed
13,718 corpus weight
- foaled
foaled
13,717 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “floodlit” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | floodlit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “floodlit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
floodlit is uncommon English at frequency #86,282 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lit by floodlights.".
Zero misspellings are on record for floodlit in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is floodlit, spelled F-L-O-O-D-L-I-T.
Definition
- 1Lit by floodlights.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how floodlit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.
The depot yard is floodlit by three light clusters mounted on steel masts at a height of 50 ft. above ground level.
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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