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leadlight

/ˈlɛdlaɪt/noun

leadlight is spelled L-E-A-D-L-I-G-H-T: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, leadlight means “A decorative window made of small sections of glass supported in lead divider bars, or cames” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of leadlight is leadlights.

How many letters and syllables are in leadlight?

Letters9: L-E-A-D-L-I-G-H-T
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is leadlight?

Leadlight appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

How do you pronounce leadlight?

  • /ˈlɛdlaɪt/

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

Forms of leadlight

  • leadlights plural

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

What does leadlight mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A decorative window made of small sections of glass supported in lead divider bars, or cames.

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

Where does leadlight come from?

From lead + light.

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

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