fra
/fɹɑː/noun
fra is spelled F-R-A: 3 letters. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fra means “A title of a friar or monk: brother” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in fra?
| Letters | 3: F-R-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
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).
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).
Words people confuse with fra
Also written: fro.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with fra?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as fra.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: far, arf.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does fra mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
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).
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).