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frailer

noun, adjective

frailer is a noun meaning “One who plays a musical instrument by frailing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-I-L-E-R, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frailer is frailers.

What does frailer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who plays a musical instrument by frailing.

adjective

  1. 1

    comparative form of frail: more frail (a form of frail)

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

How do you pronounce frailer?

  • US

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

Forms of frailer

  • frailers plural

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

How common is frailer?

Frailer appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).