firebug

Other forms of firebug

plural

firebugs·

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 firebug

What does firebug mean?

firebug means "a criminal who illegally sets fire to property". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firebug?

firebug has 3 syllables: fi-re-bug. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɚˌbʌɡ/.

What is another word for firebug?

Close synonyms include arsonist, 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 firebug a common word?

firebug 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 firebug?

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