hot spot

Questions about hot spot

What does hot spot mean?

hot spot means "a place of political unrest and potential violence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hot spot?

Close synonyms include hotspot, trouble spot, flashpoint, hotspot, hotspot. 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 hot spot a common word?

hot spot 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.