# Frisco

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈfɹɪskoʊ/ · frequency rank #31,182

## Definitions
1. Nickname for San Francisco: a major city in California, United States.
2. A city in Texas, United States, within the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area.

## Etymology
Abbreviation of San Francisco through shortening by omission of syllables. “Frisco City” was chosen as the name of the Texas city by its residents in 1904 in honor of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway that was being built through the area, commonly called “the Frisco”.

## Easily confused with
- **frisk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/frisco-vs-frisk)
- **frisky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/frisco-vs-frisky)
- **fico** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fico-vs-frisco)
- **frick** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/frick-vs-frisco)
- **Fresno** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresno-vs-frisco)
- **fiasco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fiasco-vs-frisco)
- **fresco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresco-vs-frisco)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ffrisco`, `firsco`, `fricso`, `friscco`, `frisoc`, `frissco`, `frrisco`, `frsico`, `rfisco`

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