fromm
\frɔm\
The verdict
“fromm” is uncommon French (frequency #79,336 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,336
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratiquant, pieux, dévot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fromm · fromm · French
fromm · rank #79,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,336
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fucks
Nearest frequency peer: fucks (+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 « fromm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frente
frente
20,668 corpus weight
- friqués
friqués
20,667 corpus weight
- fromm
fromm
20,665 corpus weight
- fucks
fucks
20,664 corpus weight
- furoncle
furoncle
20,663 corpus weight
- gaffeur
gaffeur
20,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fromm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fromm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \frɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fromm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fromm is uncommon French at frequency #79,336 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \frɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fromm, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fromm, spelled F-R-O-M-M.
Definition
- 1Pratiquant, pieux, dévot.
- 2Doux, obéissant, soumis.
- 3Bon, juste, honnête.
- 4Brave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fromm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei den Familientagen pflegte er zu sagen: «Louis ist von uns allen der frommste, Auguste der reichste, ich bin der intelligenteste!» Die Brüder lachten, die Schwägerinnen preßten die Lippen zusammen.
Die Frauenfasnacht in der Unterkirche in Wutöschingen war wieder ein voller Erfolg. Der relativ neue Verein “Fröhlich Fromme Frauen” bot dabei ein sportliches aber natürlich auch sehr amüsantes Programm.
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Antonyms
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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