fronder
French, verb/fʁɔ̃.de/
fronder is spelled F-R-O-N-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fronder is a French verb meaning “to slingshot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lancer des pierres, des balles avec une fronde”.
What does fronder mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto slingshot
- 2
to critique
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lancer des pierres, des balles avec une fronde. 2. Parler et agir avec un esprit de fronde, rétorquer. 3. Critiquer, blâmer.
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 fronder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- frondant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- frondé participle past
- fronde first-person indicative present
- frondes indicative present second-person
- frondons first-person indicative plural
- frondez indicative plural present
- frondent indicative plural present
- frondais first-person imperfect indicative
- frondait imperfect indicative singular
- frondions first-person imperfect indicative
- frondiez imperfect indicative plural
- frondaient imperfect indicative plural
- frondai first-person historic indicative
- frondas historic indicative past
- fronda historic indicative past
- frondâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fronder?
- /fʁɔ̃.de/
- \fʁɔ̃.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fronder in French?
fronder appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).