fra
/fɹɑː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother
name
Short form of Francis.
noun
Initialism of forward-rate agreement.
Example Sentences
- "You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait."
- "The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]"
- ""She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel."