froncer
\fʁɔ̃.se\
The verdict
“froncer” is uncommon French (frequency #78,443 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,443
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plisser en contractant, en resserrant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froncer · froncer · French
froncer · rank #78,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,443
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frottes
Nearest frequency peer: frottes (+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 « froncer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- friperies
friperies
21,561 corpus weight
- frisch
frisch
21,560 corpus weight
- froncer
froncer
21,558 corpus weight
- frottes
frottes
21,557 corpus weight
- frugale
frugale
21,556 corpus weight
- frémis
frémis
21,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « froncer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | froncer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁɔ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « froncer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
froncer is uncommon French at frequency #78,443 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁɔ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for froncer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is froncer, spelled F-R-O-N-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Plisser en contractant, en resserrant.
- 2Plisser une étoffe, du linge de plis menus et serrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how froncer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Froncer le sourcil, les sourcils.
Il en fronça le sourcil de chagrin, de colère.
Synonyms
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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