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frostproof

adjective, verb

frostproof is an adjective meaning “Resistant to frost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-S-T-P-R-O-O-F, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frostproof mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Resistant to frost.

verb

  1. 1

    To make resistant to frost.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of frostproof

  • more frostproof comparative
  • most frostproof superlative
  • frostproofs present, singular, he/she/it
  • frostproofing participle, present
  • frostproofed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is frostproof?

Frostproof appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).

Where does frostproof come from?

From frost + -proof.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).