firebomb

Other forms of firebomb

plural

firebombs·

past tense

firebombed·

present participle

firebombing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about firebomb

What does firebomb mean?

firebomb means "a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firebomb?

firebomb has 3 syllables: fi-re-bomb. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɚˌbɑm/.

What is another word for firebomb?

Close synonyms include incendiary bomb, incendiary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is firebomb a common word?

firebomb is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with firebomb?

3 words rhyme with firebomb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.