frot
\fʁɔt\
The verdict
“frot” is uncommon French (frequency #82,971 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,971
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique sexuelle, où deux hommes frottent l'un contre l'autre leurs penis, éventuellement au travers des vêtements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frot · frot · French
frot · rank #82,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,971
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fronçant
Nearest frequency peer: fronçant (-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 « frot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- franchisse
franchisse
17,033 corpus weight
- frogs
frogs
17,032 corpus weight
- fronçant
fronçant
17,031 corpus weight
- frot
frot
17,030 corpus weight
- frôlait
frôlait
17,029 corpus weight
- fumage
fumage
17,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frot is uncommon French at frequency #82,971 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pratique sexuelle, où deux hommes frottent l'un contre l'autre leurs penis, éventuellement au travers des vêtements.".
Zero misspellings are on record for frot in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is frot, spelled F-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1Pratique sexuelle, où deux hommes frottent l'un contre l'autre leurs penis, éventuellement au travers des vêtements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le frot n'est par ailleurs pas strictement réservé aux humains. Chez les bonobos mâles ou certaines baleines, l on parle de « combat »de pénis .
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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