Fanlight

Definitions: Fanlight

Fanlight

Noun

1. A window above a door and hinged to a transom.

2. A window in a roof to admit daylight.

3. A semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan.

Date "fanlight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Synonyms: Fanlight

Synonyms: skylight (n), transom (n), transom window (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fanlight

Specialty definitions using "fanlight": Hoare ♦ transome. (references)

Domain	Title
Periodicals	Fanlight (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	New Orleans photographs. Courtyard of 731 Royal St., fanlight windows.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Fanlight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fanlight" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fanlight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dritarëz gjysmërrethore mbi derë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نافذة مشبكة (grate), ‏النافذة المروحية. (various references)

Danish		halvrundt vindue over dør. (various references)

Dutch		venster met bovenraam, venster met bovenlicht, bovenlicht (light, roof-light, skylight, window over door). (various references)

French		imposte. (various references)

German		fensterklappe, Fenster mit nach innen klappbarem Oberteil, Fenster mit klappbarem Oberteil, Oberlicht (light, port, roof-light, skylight, window over door). (various references)

Hungarian		felülvilágító ablak (transom-window). (various references)

Italian		finestra ad imposta, lunetta (back rest, back stay, bezel, locating stop, lunette, stay, steady, steady rest, work steady). (various references)

Manx		uinnag sleaystagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		anlightfay

Portuguese		desarmado (armless, defenceless, disarmed, unarmed, weaponless). (various references)

Russian		фрамуга (transom), окно над дверью. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta prozorčeta iznad vrata. (various references)

Spanish		ventana con montante, montante de abanico. (various references)

Swedish		halvcirkelformat fönster, överljudsfönster. (various references)

Thai		หน้าต่างครึ่งวงกลมที่ติ�"เหนือประตูหรือหน้าต่าง. (various references)

Turkish		kapı üstü yelpaze şeklinde pencere. (various references)

Ukranian		верхн�" світло (lantern, skylight). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fanlight": fanlights. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fanlight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faclight, Fainlight, Finelight, funfight. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: fatling, hafting, halting, lathing.
	-2 letters: alight, fating, flight, haling, hating.
	-3 letters: algin, align, fagin, faint, faith, fight, filth, final, fling, flint, giant, glint, laigh, laith, lathi, liang, ligan, light, linga, night, thing.
	-4 letters: agin, alif, alit, anil, anti, fail, fain, fang, fiat, fila, flag, flan, flat, flit, gain, gait, ghat, gift, gilt, glia, gnat.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-g-h-i-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: fanlights, nightfall.
	+2 letters: nightfalls.
	+3 letters: farthingale, fishtailing, highfalutin.
	+4 letters: farthingales, flowcharting.
	+5 letters: flowchartings, lightfastness.
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