frustration
French, noun/fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃/
frustration is spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written French, the 10,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frustration is a French feminine noun meaning “frustration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte d'état mental caractérisé par un déséquilibre entre un désir ou une attente et sa réalisation”.
What does frustration mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefrustration
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte d'état mental caractérisé par un déséquilibre entre un désir ou une attente et sa réalisation.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of frustration
- frustrations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frustration?
- /fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃/
- \fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frustration
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frustration in French?
frustration appears 5.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).