friser
\fʁi.ze\
The verdict
“friser” is uncommon French (frequency #62,295 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,295
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en boucles des cheveux ou des poils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friser · friser · French
friser · rank #62,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,295
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fri
Nearest frequency peer: fri (-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 « friser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Gabor
Gabor
37,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « friser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | friser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « friser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
friser is uncommon French at frequency #62,295 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
friser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is friser, spelled F-R-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en boucles des cheveux ou des poils.
- 2Il se dit aussi en parlant du poil des étoffes.
- 3Raser, effleurer, ne faire que toucher superficiellement.
- 4Presque atteindre.
- 5Doubler, papilloter pour des caractères qui paraissent doublement imprimés sur la feuille, par le défaut de la presse ou par autre cause.
- 6Se mettre en boucles.
- 7Être légèrement coquin, en parlant d’un regard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how friser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Henri tournait le dos, mais voyait la scène dans une glace, tout en ayant l’air de friser sa moustache avec une pommade que venait de lui donner René.
Friser ses cheveux avec des papillotes.
This word in other languages
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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