fire hose
"fire-hose" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fire hose” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fire-hose · fire hose · English
fire hose · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fire hose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fire hose” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fire hose is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fire hose, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fire + hose. The correct English form is fire hose, spelled F-I-R-E- -H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.
- 2Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).
- 3A feed of all updates to a website.
- 4A human penis.
- 5An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fire hose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Although the subway structure is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided.
She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.
Etymology
From fire + hose.
This word in other languages
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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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.