frequent
/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.27 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired."
- "There are frequent trains to the beach available."
- "I am a frequent visitor to that city."
- "During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]"
- "Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]"
- "[E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government."
Etymology
From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: frequent, frequens, *bʰrekʷ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
- British English: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more frequent (comparative)
frequenter (comparative)
most frequent (superlative)
frequentest (superlative)
frequents (present, singular)
frequenting (participle, present)
frequented (participle, past)
frequented (past)