firehawk
noun
firehawk is a noun meaning “The black kite, particularly in the context of its spreading of wildfires” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-H-A-W-K, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firehawk is firehawks.
What does firehawk mean?
noun
- 1
The black kite, particularly in the context of its spreading of wildfires.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of firehawk
- firehawks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is firehawk?
Firehawk appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 firehawk come from?
From fire + hawk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).