froids

/\fʁwa\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,796

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

froids is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de froid. Pronounced \fʁwa\. Often confused with fruits and fronts.

Key facts for froids
PropertyValue
Headwordfroids
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\fʁwa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,796
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for froids is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,796 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de froid.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for froids, with forms such as "ffroids", "forids", and "friods". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "fruits", "fronts", "fronde", 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 froids, spelled F-R-O-I-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de froid.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffroids,forids,friods,frodis,froidds,froidss,froisd,frroids,rfoids

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for froids

Misspelling Variants of "froids"

ffroids7forids6friods6frodis6froidds7froidss7froisd6frroids7
Misspelling Variants of "froids"

Frequency rank: #13,796 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "froids"?
"froids" is spelled F-R-O-I-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁwa\.
What does "froids" mean?
As an adj, "froids" means: Masculin pluriel de froid.
What words are commonly confused with "froids"?
"froids" is commonly confused with "fruits", "fronts", "fronde". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "froids"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "froids" is \fʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "froids" come from?
"froids" 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.