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firekeeper

noun

firekeeper is a noun meaning “One who tends a ceremonial fire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-K-E-E-P-E-R, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firekeeper is firekeepers.

What does firekeeper mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who tends a ceremonial fire.

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

Forms of firekeeper

  • firekeepers plural

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

How common is firekeeper?

Firekeeper appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 firekeeper come from?

From fire + keeper.

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