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fireteam

noun

fireteam is a noun meaning “A small unit of infantry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-T-E-A-M, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fireteam is fireteams.

What does fireteam mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USA small unit of infantry.

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

Forms of fireteam

  • fireteams plural

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

How common is fireteam?

Fireteam appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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 fireteam come from?

From fire + team.

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