bushfire
"bushfire" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bushfire” is uncommon English (frequency #54,063 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,063
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bushfire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bushfire” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bushfire is uncommon English at frequency #54,063 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.".
bushfire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bush + fire. The correct English form is bushfire, spelled B-U-S-H-F-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
Etymology
From bush + fire.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bushfire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-U-S-H-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.