firewood
fire·wood/ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/noun
firewood is spelled F-I-R-E-W-O-O-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables (fire·wood). It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, firewood means “Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of firewood is firewoods.
How many letters and syllables are in firewood?
| Letters | 8: F-I-R-E-W-O-O-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: fire·wood |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is firewood?
Firewood appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th 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).
How do you pronounce firewood?
- UK /ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
- /ˈfa.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
- /ˈfaː(ɹ).wʊd/
Firewood has 2 syllables, split fire·wood in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-firewood.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with firewood?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as firewood (/aɪəwʊd/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: woodfire.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of firewood
- firewoods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does firewood mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Firewood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wood intended to be burned, typically for heat:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bois de chauffage |
| German | Brennholz, Feuerholz |
| Portuguese | lenha |
| Spanish | leña, escarabaja |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does firewood come from?
From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire + wood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).