Frust

/[fʁʊst]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,906

in German word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Frust is aGermannoun. It means: Gefühl der Enttäuschung, das sich bei wiederkehrendem Misserfolg einstellt Pronounced [fʁʊst]. It ranks #9,906 in German word frequency. Often confused with fügt and Fürst.

Key facts for Frust
PropertyValue
HeadwordFrust
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[fʁʊst]
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,906
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Frust in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Frust is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fʁʊst]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,906 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gefühl der Enttäuschung, das sich bei wiederkehrendem Misserfolg einstellt".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Frust, with forms such as "ffrust", "frrust", and "frsut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fügt", "Fürst", "fast", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Frust, spelled F-R-U-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gefühl der Enttäuschung, das sich bei wiederkehrendem Misserfolg einstellt

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffrust,frrust,frsut,frusst,frustt,fruts,furst,rfust

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Frust

Misspelling Variants of "Frust"

ffrust6frrust6frsut5frusst6frustt6fruts5furst5rfust5
Misspelling Variants of "Frust"

Frequency rank: #9,906 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Frust"?
"Frust" is spelled F-R-U-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is [fʁʊst].
What does "Frust" mean?
As a noun, "Frust" means: Gefühl der Enttäuschung, das sich bei wiederkehrendem Misserfolg einstellt
What words are commonly confused with "Frust"?
"Frust" is commonly confused with "fügt", "Fürst", "fast". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Frust"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Frust" is [fʁʊst]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Frust" come from?
"Frust" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.