frozen
/ˈfɹoʊzən/adjective, verb
frozen is spelled F-R-O-Z-E-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, frozen means “Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in frozen?
| Letters | 6: F-R-O-Z-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,153rd 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 frozen?
Frozen appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd 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 frozen?
- UK /ˈfɹəʊzən/
- US /ˈfɹoʊzən/
Frozen has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-frozen.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with frozen?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as frozen from its last stressed vowel (/oʊzən/):
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 frozen
- more frozen comparative
- most frozen superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does frozen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.
The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.
- 2
Immobilized.
I just stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed at me with his gun.
- 3
Of an account or assets, in a state such that transactions are not allowed.
- 4
Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.
"Dice" is a frozen plural.
verb
- 1
past participle of freeze
The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Frozen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having undergone freezing:
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 frozen come from?
From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).