frazzled
adjective, verb
frazzled is an adjective meaning “Frayed at the edges” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-Z-Z-L-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does frazzled mean?
adjective
- 1
Frayed at the edges.
- 2
colloquialStressed and exhausted (either physically or emotionally).
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of frazzle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frazzled?
Frazzled has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frazzled
- more frazzled comparative
- most frazzled superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frazzled?
Frazzled appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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).
Frazzled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense stressed, exhausted:
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.