frogspawn
noun
frogspawn is a noun meaning “A gelatinous mass of frogs' eggs, laid in ponds and ditches” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-G-S-P-A-W-N, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does frogspawn mean?
noun
- 1
A gelatinous mass of frogs' eggs, laid in ponds and ditches.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frogspawn?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frogspawn.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frogspawn
- frog spawn
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frogspawn?
Frogspawn appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Frogspawn in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense frogs' eggs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | œufs de grenouille |
| German | Froschlaich |
| Portuguese | ovas de rã |
| Spanish | huevas de rana |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does frogspawn come from?
From frog + spawn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).