fru
\fʁy\
The verdict
“fru” is uncommon French (frequency #69,103 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,103
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de frustré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fru · fru · French
fru · rank #69,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,103
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fresne
Nearest frequency peer: fresne (-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 « fru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frames
frames
30,902 corpus weight
- freinant
freinant
30,900 corpus weight
- fresne
fresne
30,899 corpus weight
- fru
fru
30,898 corpus weight
- fructificat…
fructification
30,897 corpus weight
- gagnèrent
gagnèrent
30,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fru is uncommon French at frequency #69,103 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation de frustré.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fru, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is fru, spelled F-R-U.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de frustré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Début des années 70, j’étais fru quand je suivais le hockey. Le Canadien n’était pas assez robuste à mon goût et se faisait brasser par les Big Bad Bruins.
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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