froid
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | froid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fʁwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Qui nous donne la sensation d’une température notablement inférieure à la nôtre.
- 2Qui est privé de chaleur.
- 3Refroidi.
- 4Qui se déguste froid, en parlant d’un mets ou par métonymie d’un repas.
- 5Qui n’est plus assez chaud, en parlant d’un mets ou par métonymie d’un repas.
- 6Dont le moteur est trop froid pour permettre un démarrage instantané.
- 7Qui est flegmatique, réservé, indifférent, qui ne s’émeut pas ou qui paraît ne pas s’émouvoir.
- 8Se dit de l’air, du ton, des discours, dans un sens analogue à celui qui précède.
- 9Qui n’a rien d’animé, de touchant, d’intéressant, de piquant, en parlant des personnes ou des ouvrages ou des traits d’esprit.
- 10Qui manque de feu, d’âme, d’expression.
- 11Qui manque d’éclat et de vivacité dans les tons, dans les couleurs, dans le coloris.
- 12En 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.
- 13Qui n’est pas en état d’inflammation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffroid,forid,friod,frodi,froidd,frroid,rfoid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "froid"
Frequency rank: #1,264 in French
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