firebrand

Other forms of firebrand

plural

firebrands·

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 firebrand

What does firebrand mean?

firebrand means "a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firebrand?

firebrand has 3 syllables: fi-re-brand. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɚˌbɹænd/.

What is another word for firebrand?

Close synonyms include brand, instigator, provoker, inciter, instigant. 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 firebrand a common word?

firebrand 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 firebrand?

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