frison
\fʁi.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“frison” is uncommon French (frequency #62,296 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,296
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne ou provient de la Frise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frison · frison · French
frison · rank #62,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,296
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH friser
Nearest frequency peer: friser (-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 « frison »
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 « frison » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frison » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frison is uncommon French at frequency #62,296 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁi.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for frison in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 frison, spelled F-R-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne ou provient de la Frise.
- 2Qualifie une race de vaches laitières, à robe pie noire.
- 3Qualifie une race chevaline.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, en 28, le représentant romain auprès de la nation frisonne avait eu la mauvaise idée d’augmenter le tribut léger versé jusque-là sous la forme de peaux de bœuf à la petite garnison légionnaire.
L’archipel frison, cette succession d’îles sablonneuses si différentes entre elles.
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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