froissement
\fʁwas.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“froissement” is uncommon French (frequency #91,714 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,714
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de froisser ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froissement · froissement · French
froissement · rank #91,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,714
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FSH
Nearest frequency peer: FSH (+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 « froissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frapperont
frapperont
8,290 corpus weight
- fratries
fratries
8,289 corpus weight
- froissement
froissement
8,287 corpus weight
- FSH
FSH
8,286 corpus weight
- fundamental
fundamental
8,284 corpus weight
- fuyante
fuyante
8,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « froissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | froissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁwas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « froissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
froissement is uncommon French at frequency #91,714 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁwas.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for froissement in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is froissement, spelled F-R-O-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de froisser ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Pression plus ou moins brusque du fleuret le long du fer de l’adversaire.
- 3Ce qui heurte, ce qui blesse, en parlant des intérêts, des opinions, des sentiments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how froissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vision s’est envolée, Conrad ; mais, en me réveillant, j’entendais encore le froissement des cottes de mailles, ….
Le froissement de nos épées sur le mur les avertit que nous étions là.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).