firecrest
noun
firecrest is a noun meaning “A very small passerine bird, Regulus ignicapilla, that breeds in Eurasia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-C-R-E-S-T, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firecrest is firecrests.
What does firecrest mean?
noun
- 1
A very small passerine bird, Regulus ignicapilla, that breeds in Eurasia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of firecrest
- firecrests plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is firecrest?
Firecrest appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).
Firecrest in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense passerine bird:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Sommergoldhähnchen |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does firecrest come from?
From fire + crest.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).