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frybread

/ˈfɹaɪˌbɹɛd/noun

frybread is a noun meaning “Fried bread” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-Y-B-R-E-A-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frybread is frybreads.

What does frybread mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USFried bread.

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

How do you pronounce frybread?

  • US /ˈfɹaɪˌbɹɛd/

Frybread has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of frybread

  • frybreads plural
  • fry bread

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

How common is frybread?

Frybread appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 frybread come from?

From fry + bread.

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