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firepit

noun

firepit is a noun meaning “A pit dug in the ground, or constructed from stones, in which a fire is made, principally for cooking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-P-I-T, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firepit is firepits.

What does firepit mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A pit dug in the ground, or constructed from stones, in which a fire is made, principally for cooking.

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

How do you pronounce firepit?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-firepit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of firepit

  • firepits plural
  • fire pit

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

How common is firepit?

Firepit appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 firepit come from?

From fire + pit.

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