Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

illuminant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

Syllables: il-lu-mi-nant
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that illuminates.

adj

That illuminates.

Example Sentences

"They seemed to note the positions of the window at the one end and the door almost at the other, and even to take into account the single pendent electric light which up till then had been the sole illuminant."
"For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas. The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934."

Etymology

From French.

Inflected Forms

illuminants (plural)

Questions

What does illuminant mean?: Something that illuminates.
Where does illuminant come from?: From French.

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