fretwork
noun
fretwork is a noun meaning “Ornamental woodwork either carved in low relief or cut through” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-T-W-O-R-K, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fretwork is fretworks.
What does fretwork mean?
noun
- 1
Ornamental woodwork either carved in low relief or cut through.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fretwork?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fretwork.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fretwork
- fretworks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fretwork?
Fretwork appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
Fretwork in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ornamental woodwork:
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.
Where does fretwork come from?
From fret (verb) + -work.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).