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moonlighted

adjective, verb

moonlighted is spelled M-O-O-N-L-I-G-H-T-E-D: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, moonlighted means “Illuminated by moonlight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in moonlighted?

Letters11: M-O-O-N-L-I-G-H-T-E-D
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th 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 moonlighted?

Moonlighted appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).

Forms of moonlighted

  • moon-lighted

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

What does moonlighted mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Illuminated by moonlight.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of moonlight (a form of moonlight)

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

Where does moonlighted come from?

From moon + lighted.

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

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