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firelighter is a noun meaning "(a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire". It carries one recorded sense.
(a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for firelighter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.