frotter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,600
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
frotter is aFrenchverb. It means: Passer une chose sur une autre à quelques ou plusieurs reprises, en appuyant, en pressant. Pronounced \fʁɔ.te\. Often confused with frottis and flotte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frotter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frotter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɔ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,600 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for frotter, with forms such as "ffrotter", "fortter", and "froter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "frottis", "flotte", "foster", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is frotter, spelled F-R-O-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Passer une chose sur une autre à quelques ou plusieurs reprises, en appuyant, en pressant.
- 2Être en relation superficielle.
- 3Être en relation opposée, tendue.
- 4Oindre, enduire, en frottant.
- 5Appliquer une légère couche de couleur sur celle qui fait le fond d’un tableau.
- 6Battre, frapper, maltraiter.
- 7Se dit d’une chose qui passe, qui glisse sur une autre ou contre une autre, en exerçant quelque pression.
- 8, Parler de, porter sur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffrotter,fortter,froter,frotetr,frotterr,frottre,frrotter,frtoter,rfotter
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Misspelling Variants of "frotter"
Frequency rank: #13,600 in French
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