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lightstick

noun

lightstick is a noun meaning “A portable rod used for illumination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-G-H-T-S-T-I-C-K, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lightstick is lightsticks.

What does lightstick mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A portable rod used for illumination.

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

Forms of lightstick

  • lightsticks plural

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

How common is lightstick?

Lightstick appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).

Where does lightstick come from?

From light + stick.

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