fireground
noun
fireground is a noun meaning “The site where a fire occurs or has recently occurred” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-G-R-O-U-N-D, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fireground is firegrounds.
What does fireground mean?
noun
- 1
The site where a fire occurs or has recently occurred.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fireground
- firegrounds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fireground?
Fireground appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 fireground come from?
From fire + ground.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).