frog
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "frog", 4-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "frog" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "frog" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
frog is aEnglishnoun. It means: Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop. Pronounced /fɹɒɡ/. It ranks #8,426 in English word frequency. Often confused with fry and from.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for frog is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for frog, with forms such as "ffrog", "forg", and "frgo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fry", "from", "fung", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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”),… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is frog, spelled F-R-O-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffrog,forg,frgo,frogg,frrog,rfog
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frog
Misspelling Variants of "frog"
Frequency rank: #8,426 in English
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