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frisket

noun

frisket is a noun meaning “A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-S-K-E-T, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frisket is friskets.

What does frisket mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.

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

Forms of frisket

  • friskets plural

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

How common is frisket?

Frisket appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 frisket come from?

Borrowed from French frisquette.

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