bushfire
"bushfire" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bushfire” is uncommon English (frequency #54,063 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,063
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bushfire · bushfire · English
bushfire · rank #54,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,063
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bruxelles
Nearest frequency peer: Bruxelles (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “bushfire”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Broussard
Broussard
45,941 corpus weight
- Bruxelles
Bruxelles
45,939 corpus weight
- bushfire
bushfire
45,938 corpus weight
- bushman
bushman
45,937 corpus weight
- buttock
buttock
45,936 corpus weight
- camphor
camphor
45,934 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bushfire” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “bushfire” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bushfire is uncommon English at frequency #54,063 among 4,121 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bushfire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1985, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, Weekly Hansard, Issues 4-6, page 1322, Many homes, a great deal of property and a number of lives were lost as a result of the bushfires in this country.
It should also be kept in mind that often bushfires start and move quickly and the information relating to their location and activity may take some time to assemble and make available.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).