frisking
/ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/noun, verb
frisking is a noun meaning “The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-S-K-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frisking is friskings.
What does frisking mean?
noun
- 1
The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
- 2
The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of frisk
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frisking?
- /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frisking
- friskings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frisking?
Frisking appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).