frog
/fɹɒɡ/
"frog" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“frog” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #8,426 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,426
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɹɒɡ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “frog” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for frog is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɹɒɡ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,426 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for frog, with forms such as "ffrog", "forg", and "frgo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fry", "from", "fung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”). Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”),… The correct English form is frog, spelled F-R-O-G.
Definition
- 1Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- 2The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- 3Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- 4The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- 5An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- 6The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- 7The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- 8A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- 9Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
Etymology
From Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”). Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”). Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffrog,forg,frgo,frogg,frrog,rfog
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frog - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “frog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-R-O-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /fɹɒɡ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fry” - see the side-by-side comparison. frog vs fry
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.