lifecycle
noun
lifecycle is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of life cycle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-F-E-C-Y-C-L-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lifecycle is lifecycles.
What does lifecycle mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of life cycle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lifecycle?
Lifecycle has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lifecycle
- lifecycles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lifecycle?
Lifecycle appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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).
Words people confuse with lifecycle
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: life-cycle (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).