wildfire

1. 1.

   a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration

   Broaderconflagration

Other forms of wildfire

plural

wildfires·

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 wildfire

What does wildfire mean?

wildfire means "a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration".

How many syllables are in wildfire?

wildfire has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈwaɪldˌfaɪɚ/.