fretter
noun
fretter is a noun meaning “One who or that which frets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-T-T-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fretter is fretters.
What does fretter mean?
noun
- 1
One who or that which frets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fretter?
Fretter 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 fretter
- fretters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fretter?
Fretter appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 fretter come from?
From Middle English fretere (“that which frets, devours, or corrodes”), equivalent to fret + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).