take fire
"take-fire" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“take fire” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To catch fire; to begin to burn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | take fire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “take fire” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
take fire is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for take fire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is take fire, spelled T-A-K-E- -F-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1To catch fire; to begin to burn.
- 2To become excited or enthused about something.
- 3To be subjected to enemy attack with firearms; to be under fire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “take fire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-A-K-E- -F-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.