add fuel to fire
"add-fuel-to-fire" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“add fuel to fire” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of add fuel to the fire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | add fuel to fire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “add fuel to fire” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
add fuel to fire is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of add fuel to the fire.".
add fuel to fire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is add fuel to fire, spelled A-D-D- -F-U-E-L- -T-O- -F-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of add fuel to the fire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “add fuel to fire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-D-D- -F-U-E-L- -T-O- -F-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.