firetrap
noun
firetrap is a noun meaning “A building that is dangerously flammable and/or has limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-T-R-A-P, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firetrap is firetraps.
What does firetrap mean?
noun
- 1
informalA building that is dangerously flammable and/or has limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of firetrap
- firetraps plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is firetrap?
Firetrap appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 firetrap come from?
From fire + trap.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).