# fresh

> English word · Adjective · IPA /fɹɛʃ/ · frequency rank #1,563

## Definitions
1. Newly produced or obtained; recent.
2. Of food, not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
3. Of plant material, still green and not dried.
4. Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
5. Of water, without salt; not saline.
6. Rested; not tired or fatigued.
7. In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
8. Youthful; florid.
9. Good, fashionable.
10. Tipsy; drunk.

## Etymology
From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective.
Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.

## Easily confused with
- **fret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-fret)
- **Frey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-frey)
- **frost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-frost)
- **fries** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-fries)
- **Freud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-freud)
- **Freya** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-freya)
- **frisk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-frisk)
- **froth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-froth)
- **frets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-frets)
- **frith** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-frith)
- **Fresno** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-fresno)
- **freshly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-freshly)
- **fresher** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-fresher)
- **freshen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-freshen)
- **FES** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fes-vs-fresh)
- **free** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/free-vs-fresh)
- **fish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fish-vs-fresh)
- **fees** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fees-vs-fresh)
- **Fred** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fred-vs-fresh)
- **fest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fest-vs-fresh)

## Common misspellings (8)
`fersh`, `ffresh`, `frehs`, `freshh`, `fressh`, `frresh`, `frseh`, `rfesh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fresh