light upon
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To find or think of something unexpectedly; to come upon something by accident.
Example Sentences
- "[...] Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself, I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg."
Inflected Forms
lights upon (present, singular)
lighting upon (participle, present)
lit upon (participle, past)
lit upon (past)
lighted upon (participle, past)
lighted upon (past)