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frameset

noun

frameset is a noun meaning “A bicycle's frame plus the front fork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-M-E-S-E-T, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frameset is framesets.

What does frameset mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A bicycle's frame plus the front fork.

  2. 2

    The set of frames that constitute the layout of a webpage.

    The reloading of the frameset is obviously less attractive than simply changing the location of one frame.

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

How do you pronounce frameset?

  • US

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

Forms of frameset

  • framesets plural

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

How common is frameset?

Frameset appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).

Frameset in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense set of frames that constitute the layout of a webpage:

LanguageWords
Frenchjeu de cadres

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does frameset come from?

From frame + set.

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