frôlement
French, noun/fʁol.mɑ̃/
frôlement is spelled F-R-Ô-L-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frôlement is a French masculine noun meaning “brush, soft, light touch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de frôler ou effet d’une chose qui frôle”.
What does frôlement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebrush, soft, light touch
- 2
masculinerustling sound, i.e. the sound resulting from 1.
- 3
masculinecaress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de frôler ou effet d’une chose qui frôle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of frôlement
- frôlements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frôlement?
- /fʁol.mɑ̃/
- \fʁol.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frôlement in French?
frôlement appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).