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firebolt

noun, verb

firebolt is a noun meaning “A missile of fire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-B-O-L-T, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firebolt is firebolts.

What does firebolt mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A missile of fire.

verb

  1. 1

    rareTo strike with a firebolt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of firebolt

  • firebolts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • firebolting participle, present
  • firebolted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is firebolt?

Firebolt appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does firebolt come from?

From fire + bolt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).