frise
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,430
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
frise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de l’entablement qui est entre l’architrave et la corniche. Pronounced \fʁiz\. Often confused with frs and fuis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁiz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frise is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,430 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for frise, with forms such as "ffrise", "firse", and "frisse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "frs", "fuis", "frit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is frise, spelled F-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de l’entablement qui est entre l’architrave et la corniche.
- 2Partie de l’entablement qui est entre l’architrave et la corniche.
- 3Partie de l’entablement qui est entre l’architrave et la corniche.
- 4Traverse du haut de la caisse d’une voiture au-dessus de la portière.
- 5Panneau long, rempli de divers ornements, qui se met à hauteur d’appui aux ouvrages de fer, tels que les rampes d’escaliers, les travées de barreaux, etc.
- 6Pièce de bois plate en sculpture, qui règne sous la face de l’éperon.
- 7Bandes de toile peinte, placées au cintre d’un théâtre pour figurer un ciel ou un plafond et aussi de la partie supérieure de la scène.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffrise,firse,frisse,frrise,frsie,rfise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frise
Misspelling Variants of "frise"
Frequency rank: #17,430 in French
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Nearby French words
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