# spitfire

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #30,979

## Definitions
1. A cannon.
2. A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl.
3. A larva of the spitfire sawfly, Perga affinis.

## Etymology
Deverbal from spit fire.

## Common misspellings (12)
`psitfire`, `siptfire`, `spiftire`, `spitffire`, `spitfier`, `spitfirre`, `spitfrie`, `spitifre`, `spittfire`, `sppitfire`, `sptifire`, `sspitfire`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/spitfire