frou
\fʁu\
The verdict
“frou” is uncommon French (frequency #59,305 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,305
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Léger bruit que produit le frottement des étoffes, particulièrement des étoffes de soie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frou · frou · French
frou · rank #59,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,305
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH friperie
Nearest frequency peer: friperie (-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 « frou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fray
fray
40,699 corpus weight
- Freycinet
Freycinet
40,698 corpus weight
- friperie
friperie
40,697 corpus weight
- frou
frou
40,696 corpus weight
- further
further
40,695 corpus weight
- fusionnée
fusionnée
40,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frou is uncommon French at frequency #59,305 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Léger bruit que produit le frottement des étoffes, particulièrement des étoffes de soie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for frou in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is frou, spelled F-R-O-U.
Definition
- 1Léger bruit que produit le frottement des étoffes, particulièrement des étoffes de soie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Le jour de Teyssèdre, sans doute...." pensa Mᵐᵉ Astier, et elle s'assit dans le frou de sa robe de réception, un peu surprise de ne pas recevoir le compliment dont il ne manquait jamais d'accueillir, le mercredi, sa toilette pourtant bien minable.
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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