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frisee

/ˈfɹi.zeɪ/noun

frisee is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of frisée” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-S-E-E, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frisee is frisées or frisees.

What does frisee mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of frisée.

noun

as frisée
  1. 1

    A variety of endive, Cichorium endivia var. crispum.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce frisee?

  • /ˈfɹi.zeɪ/
  • /fɹiˈzeɪ/
  • /fɹɪˈzeɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of frisee

  • frisées plural
  • frisé
  • frisse
  • frisees plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is frisee?

Frisee appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).

Frisee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Cichorium endivia var. crispum:

LanguageWords
GermanFrisée, Krausblättrige Endivie

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.