firefighter

Other forms of firefighter

plural

firefighters·

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 firefighter

What does firefighter mean?

firefighter means "a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires".

How many syllables are in firefighter?

firefighter has 3 syllables: fire-figh-ter. The stress falls on "fire". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɹˌfaɪtɚ/.

What is another word for firefighter?

Close synonyms include fireman, fire fighter, fire-eater. 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 firefighter a common word?

firefighter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 firefighter?

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