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frowny

/ˈfɹaʊni/adjective, noun

frowny is an adjective meaning “Frowning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-W-N-Y, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frowny mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    informalFrowning.

    She made a frowny face.

noun

  1. 1

    Ellipsis of frowny face.

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

How do you pronounce frowny?

  • /ˈfɹaʊni/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-frowny.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of frowny

  • frownier comparative
  • frowniest superlative
  • frownies plural

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

How common is frowny?

Frowny appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 frowny come from?

From frown + -y.

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