lightning: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 14 letter points · starts with L · ends with G
Meaning of lightning
noun
- uncountable, usually
A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
Example: Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
- uncountable, usually
A discharge of this kind.
Example: The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
- figuratively, uncountable, usually
Anything that moves very fast.
- archaic, slang, uncountable, usually
Gin.
Listed forms: lightnings.
Source: Wiktionary — lightning.
adj
- not-comparable
Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
Source: Wiktionary — lightning.
verb
- childish, impersonal, intransitive, nonstandard
To produce lightning.
Listed forms: lightnings, lightninging, lightninged.
Source: Wiktionary — lightning.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is lightning in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
These are spelling-list matches, not official game validity checks. Check the rules and dictionary used by your game.
Letter-value score of lightning
L(1) + I(1) + G(2) + H(4) + T(1) + N(1) + I(1) + N(1) + G(2) = 14 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of lightning
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from lightning
50 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in lightning. Showing up to 24, longest first.