froid

/\fʁwa\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,264

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

froid is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui nous donne la sensation d’une température notablement inférieure à la nôtre. Pronounced \fʁwa\. It ranks #1,264 in French word frequency. Often confused with from and front.

Key facts for froid
PropertyValue
Headwordfroid
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\fʁwa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,264
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of froid in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for froid is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,264 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for froid, with forms such as "ffroid", "forid", and "friod". 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, "from", "front", "fruit", 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 froid, spelled F-R-O-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui nous donne la sensation d’une température notablement inférieure à la nôtre.
  2. 2
    Qui est privé de chaleur.
  3. 3
    Refroidi.
  4. 4
    Qui se déguste froid, en parlant d’un mets ou par métonymie d’un repas.
  5. 5
    Qui n’est plus assez chaud, en parlant d’un mets ou par métonymie d’un repas.
  6. 6
    Dont le moteur est trop froid pour permettre un démarrage instantané.
  7. 7
    Qui est flegmatique, réservé, indifférent, qui ne s’émeut pas ou qui paraît ne pas s’émouvoir.
  8. 8
    Se dit de l’air, du ton, des discours, dans un sens analogue à celui qui précède.
  9. 9
    Qui n’a rien d’animé, de touchant, d’intéressant, de piquant, en parlant des personnes ou des ouvrages ou des traits d’esprit.
  10. 10
    Qui manque de feu, d’âme, d’expression.
  11. 11
    Qui manque d’éclat et de vivacité dans les tons, dans les couleurs, dans le coloris.
  12. 12
    En parlant d'un cheval de course, qui ne se montre pas fougueux, qui répond peu aux sollicitations de son pilote, qui maintient un bon rythme régulier.
  13. 13
    Qui n’est pas en état d’inflammation.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffroid,forid,friod,frodi,froidd,frroid,rfoid

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for froid

Misspelling Variants of "froid"

ffroid6forid5friod5frodi5froidd6frroid6rfoid5
Misspelling Variants of "froid"

Frequency rank: #1,264 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "froid"?
"froid" is spelled F-R-O-I-D. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁwa\.
What does "froid" mean?
As an adj, "froid" means: Qui nous donne la sensation d’une température notablement inférieure à la nôtre.
What words are commonly confused with "froid"?
"froid" is commonly confused with "from", "front", "fruit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "froid"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "froid" is \fʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "froid" come from?
"froid" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.