lights
/laɪts/noun, verb
lights is spelled L-I-G-H-T-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lights means “The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in lights?
| Letters | 6: L-I-G-H-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lights?
Lights appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 lights?
- /laɪts/
Lights has one syllable (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). Recordings: En-us-lights.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lights?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lights.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: slight.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does lights mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
a stew of hogs' lights and potatoes
- 2
plural of light
He often gazes out at the distant lights across the bay.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of light
He usually lights a nice fire in the fireplace to kick off a winter weekend right.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).