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firewalk

verb, noun

firewalk is a verb meaning “To walk barefoot over burning embers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-W-A-L-K, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does firewalk mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To walk barefoot over burning embers.

    She is going to firewalk.

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of walking barefoot over burning embers.

    He finished the firewalk.

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

Forms of firewalk

  • firewalks present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • firewalking participle, present
  • firewalked participle, past
  • fire walk
  • fire-walk

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

How common is firewalk?

Firewalk appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).