fronton
noun
fronton is a noun meaning “A pediment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-N-T-O-N, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fronton is frontons.
What does fronton mean?
noun
- 1
A pediment.
- 2
A two-walled or single-walled court used as a playing area for Basque pelota.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fronton
- frontons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fronton?
Fronton appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).
Fronton in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a court used for Basque pelota:
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.