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firetail

noun

firetail is a noun meaning “Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-T-A-I-L, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firetail is firetails.

What does firetail mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura.

  2. 2

    UKdatedThe common redstart.

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

Forms of firetail

  • firetails plural

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

How common is firetail?

Firetail appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 firetail come from?

From fire + tail.

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