firefly

Other forms of firefly

plural

fireflies·

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 firefly

What does firefly mean?

firefly means "tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firefly?

firefly has 3 syllables: fi-re-fly. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɚˌflaɪ/.

What is another word for firefly?

Close synonyms include fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca, lightning bug. 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 firefly a common word?

firefly 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 firefly?

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