froisse
\fʁwas\
The verdict
“froisse” is uncommon French (frequency #51,483 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,483
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de froisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froisse · froisse · French
froisse · rank #51,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,483
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frissonne
Nearest frequency peer: frissonne (-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 « froisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foxy
foxy
48,521 corpus weight
- fragrance
fragrance
48,520 corpus weight
- frissonne
frissonne
48,519 corpus weight
- froisse
froisse
48,518 corpus weight
- frôlant
frôlant
48,517 corpus weight
- fumaient
fumaient
48,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « froisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | froisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁwas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « froisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
froisse is uncommon French at frequency #51,483 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁwas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for froisse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is froisse, spelled F-R-O-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de froisser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de froisser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de froisser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de froisser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de froisser.
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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