flashfire
noun
flashfire is a noun meaning “A sudden, intense fire caused by the ignition of flammable substances in the air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-S-H-F-I-R-E, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flashfire is flashfires.
What does flashfire mean?
noun
- 1
A sudden, intense fire caused by the ignition of flammable substances in the air.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flashfire
- flashfires plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flashfire?
Flashfire appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 flashfire come from?
From flash + fire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).