fra
/fɹɑː/noun
fra is a noun meaning “A title of a friar or monk: brother” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A, and it appears 1.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fra mean?
noun
- 1
A title of a friar or monk: brother.
noun
- 1
a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother
noun
- 1
Initialism of forward-rate agreement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fra?
- /fɹɑː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fra.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is fra?
Fra appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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).
Words people confuse with fra
Also written: fro.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does fra come from?
From Italian frate. See friar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).