firebrat

Questions about firebrat

What does firebrat mean?

firebrat means "lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces".

How many syllables are in firebrat?

firebrat has 3 syllables and divides as fi-re-brat under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for firebrat?

Close synonyms include Thermobia domestica. 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 firebrat a common word?

firebrat 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.