daylight

/\ˈdeɪlaɪt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#95,784

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

daylight is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lumière du soleil, par opposition à une autre source de lumière ; lumière du jour. Pronounced \ˈdeɪlaɪt\.

Key facts for daylight
PropertyValue
Headworddaylight
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈdeɪlaɪt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#95,784
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of daylight in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for daylight is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈdeɪlaɪt\. Corpus data places it at rank #95,784 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for daylight in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is daylight, spelled D-A-Y-L-I-G-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lumière du soleil, par opposition à une autre source de lumière ; lumière du jour.
  2. 2
    Source de lumière imitant la lumière du jour.
  3. 3
    Répartition de l’intensité de la lumière générée par le soleil (ou par d’autres sources de lumière destinées à simuler la lumière du jour naturelle) dans le spectre visible dans diverses conditions.
  4. 4
    Jour ; période entre le lever et le coucher du soleil.
  5. 5
    Point du jour ; aube.
  6. 6
    Espace ouvert.
  7. 7
    Lumière ; espace entre les plateaux d’une presse ou d’un mécanisme analogue.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #95,784 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "daylight"?
"daylight" is spelled D-A-Y-L-I-G-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈdeɪlaɪt\.
What does "daylight" mean?
As a noun, "daylight" means: Lumière du soleil, par opposition à une autre source de lumière ; lumière du jour.
How do you pronounce "daylight"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "daylight" is \ˈdeɪlaɪt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "daylight" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.