stairlift
noun
stairlift is a noun meaning “A motorized platform installed in a stairway, which traverses the stairs when activated and can be ridden by those for whom the stairs are a barrier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-A-I-R-L-I-F-T, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stairlift is stairlifts.
What does stairlift mean?
noun
- 1
A motorized platform installed in a stairway, which traverses the stairs when activated and can be ridden by those for whom the stairs are a barrier.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stairlift
- stairlifts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stairlift?
Stairlift 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).
Stairlift in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense motorized platform installed in a stairway:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | monte-escalier |
| Spanish | salvaescaleras |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does stairlift come from?
From stair + lift.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).