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frazil

/ˈfɹæ.zəl/noun

frazil is a noun meaning “A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-Z-I-L, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frazil is frazils.

What does frazil mean?

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUSA collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

  2. 2

    Alternative form of farasola.

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

How do you pronounce frazil?

  • /ˈfɹæ.zəl/
  • /ˈfɹeɪ.zəl/
  • /-zɪl/

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

Forms of frazil

  • frazils plural

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

How common is frazil?

Frazil appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 frazil

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

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Frazil in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense collection of stray ice crystals:

LanguageWords
Frenchfrazil

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 frazil come from?

From Canadian French frasil, frazil, fraisil, from French fraisil (“coal cinders”), from Old French faisil.

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