frizzled
adjective, verb
frizzled is an adjective meaning “Of feathers, hair, etc.: crisped or curled; crinkled, frizzed; also, of a person's head, etc.: covered with curled hair, or something similar to that” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-Z-Z-L-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does frizzled mean?
adjective
- 1
Of feathers, hair, etc.: crisped or curled; crinkled, frizzed; also, of a person's head, etc.: covered with curled hair, or something similar to that.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of frizzle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frizzled?
Frizzled has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frizzled
- more frizzled comparative
- most frizzled superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frizzled?
Frizzled appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 frizzled come from?
From frizzle + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).