fri
\ˈfriː\
The verdict
“fri” is uncommon French (frequency #62,294 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,294
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fri · fri · French
fri · rank #62,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,294
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Franconville
Nearest frequency peer: Franconville (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fragilisés
fragilisés
37,711 corpus weight
- fragilités
fragilités
37,710 corpus weight
- Franconville
Franconville
37,708 corpus weight
- fri
fri
37,707 corpus weight
- friser
friser
37,706 corpus weight
- frison
frison
37,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfriː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fri is uncommon French at frequency #62,294 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfriː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nez.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fri in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fri, spelled F-R-I.
Definition
- 1Nez.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dirak ar cʼhensonennoù M, N, ha GN e tenn an holl vogalennoù da vezañ distaget dre ar fri.
Dʼar 7 a viz here 1897, da deir eur goude kreisteiz, hervez unan eus kaieroù ti-kêr Pleiben, e lakais ma fri war an tamm douar-mañ.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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