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porchlight

noun

porchlight is spelled P-O-R-C-H-L-I-G-H-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, porchlight means “A light on or above a porch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of porchlight is porchlights.

How many letters and syllables are in porchlight?

Letters10: P-O-R-C-H-L-I-G-H-T
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd 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 porchlight?

Porchlight appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 porchlight

  • porchlights plural

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

What does porchlight mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A light on or above a porch.

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

Where does porchlight come from?

From porch + light.

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

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