frosh
/fɹɔʃ/
"frosh" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“frosh” is uncommon English (frequency #67,464 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,464
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A frog.
Corpus desk
Index EN-frosh · frosh · English
frosh · rank #67,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,464
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Frisian
Nearest frequency peer: Frisian (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “frosh”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fretboard
fretboard
32,541 corpus weight
- Frisch
Frisch
32,539 corpus weight
- Frisian
Frisian
32,538 corpus weight
- frosh
frosh
32,537 corpus weight
- fuckhead
fuckhead
32,535 corpus weight
- Fujimori
Fujimori
32,534 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “frosh” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frosh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɹɔʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “frosh” in English
Rare enough to double-check
frosh is uncommon English at frequency #67,464 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɹɔʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A frog.".
frosh has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“fr… The correct English form is frosh, spelled F-R-O-S-H.
Definition
- 1A frog.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frosh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
Etymology
From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). Doublet of frosk; more at frog.
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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