frenum
/ˈfɹiː.nəm/noun
frenum is a noun meaning “Synonym of frenulum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-N-U-M, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frenum is frena or frenums.
What does frenum mean?
noun
- 1
Synonym of frenulum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frenum?
- /ˈfɹiː.nəm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frenum.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frenum
- frena plural
- frenums plural
- fraenum
- frænum
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frenum?
Frenum appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 frenum come from?
Borrowed from Latin frēnum (“bridle, curb, bit”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).