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fraid

/fɹeɪd/adjective

fraid is an adjective meaning “Pronunciation spelling of afraid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-I-D, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fraid mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    USPronunciation spelling of afraid.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fraid?

  • /fɹeɪd/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-'fraid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is fraid?

Fraid appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 fraid

Sounds like: frayed (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does fraid come from?

Apheretic form of afraid.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).