fren
/fɹɛn/noun
fren is a noun meaning “Pronunciation spelling of friend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-N, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fren is frens or frenz.
What does fren mean?
noun
- 1
Pronunciation spelling of friend.
- 2
A fellow, a friend.
- 3
A fellow white nationalist or fascist, a comrade on the far right.
- 4
obsoleteA stranger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fren?
- /fɹɛn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-fren.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fren
- frens plural
- frenz plural
- fren's plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fren?
Fren 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).
Where does fren come from?
From Middle English frenne, contracted from forrene (“foreign”). See foreign (adjective).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).