frot
\fʁɔt\
The verdict
“frot” is uncommon French (frequency #82,971 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,971
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pratique sexuelle, où deux hommes frottent l'un contre l'autre leurs penis, éventuellement au travers des vêtements.
| 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) |
Where “frot” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
frot is uncommon French at frequency #82,971 among 137,178 “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.
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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Using “frot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁɔt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.