frazzle
/ˈfɹæz(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.58 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The new puppy has been chewing on everything, and my favorite afghan has become frazzled."
- "Frazle, to unravel or rend cloth. Frazlings, threads of cloth, torn or unravelled."
- "One’s garments get frazzled in the grass; one’s mind and body and spiritual sense sometimes become frazzled, torn to pieces, good-for-nothing."
- "Her hair was of a reddish-gray color, and its frazzled and tangled condition suggested that the woman had recently passed through a period of extreme excitement."
- "After dealing with the children all day, I just can’t help feeling frazzled."
- "The bacon was burned to a frazzle."
Etymology
Originally an East Anglian word. Either from a variant of the now obsolete fazle (“to unravel”), altered due to influence from fray, or from a blend of fazle and fray. fazle comes from earlier fasel, which was inherited from Middle English facelyn (“[of the end of a rope, or of cloth] to unravel”). Middle English facelyn was a verbal derivative of the noun fasylle (“frayed edge”), which was in turn a derivative (with the diminutive suffix -el) of Old English fæs (“fringe, border”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas, from Proto-Germanic *fasōn. Related to German Faser (“fibre”).