frosh
/ˈfɹɒʃ/noun, verb
frosh is spelled F-R-O-S-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, frosh means “A frog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of frosh is froshes.
How many letters and syllables are in frosh?
| Letters | 5: F-R-O-S-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 67,454th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is frosh?
Frosh appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th 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).
How do you pronounce frosh?
- UK /ˈfɹɒʃ/
- UK [ˈfɹʷɒ̟ʃ]
- Australia /ˈfɹɔʃ/
Frosh has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-frosh.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with frosh?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as frosh from its last stressed vowel (/ɒʃ/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of frosh
- froshes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- froshing participle, present
- froshed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does frosh mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A frog.
- 2
colloquialA first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
The frosh are really getting on my nerves!
- 3
colloquialEllipsis of frosh week.
verb
- 1
slangTo initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
- 2
slangTo damage through incompetence.
Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Frosh in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 frosh come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).